Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: PROPOSAL: New efficient Unicode string library.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:26:07AM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2007-09-27, Ross Paterson wrote:

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Combining characters are not an issue here, just the surrogate pairs, because we're discussing representations of sequences of Chars (Unicode code points).

You'll never want to combine combining characters or vice-versa? Never want to figure out how much screen space a sequence will take? It _is_ an issue.

It's an issue for a higher layer, not for a compact String representation.