On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 01:17:19 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 01/16/2014 06:56 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
Note that the Unicode definition of an unqualified "character"
is the
translation of a code *point*, which is very different from a
*glyph*,
which is what people generally associate the word "character"
with.
Thus, `string` is not an array of characters (i.e. an array
where each
element is a character), but `dstring` can be said to be.
A character can be made of more than one dchar. (There are also
more exotic examples, eg. IIRC there are cases where three
dchars make approximately two characters.)
No, I believe you are thinking of graphemes.
