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

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Aaron Denney wrote:

It's true that time-wise there are definite issues in finding character boundaries.

UTF-16 has no advantage over UTF-8 in this respect, because of surrogate pairs and combining characters. Code points, characters, and glyphs are all different things, and it's very difficult to represent the latter two as anything other than a string of code points. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: SOUTHERLY, BACKING NORTHEASTERLY FOR A TIME, 3 OR 4. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR.