On 01/23/2014 02:39 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
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.
Sure. Their existence means it is in general wrong to think of a dchar
as one character.
