Mark J. Reed wrote:
As a ref point, AppleScript 2.0 (not that I know if anyone wants to
port that to Parrot) "characters" are defined as Unicode "grapheme
clusters", e.g. the base grapheme and its diacriticals... Is that
similar to the concept of a Parrot_Rune?
That's straight from the Unicode Standard: http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
What they call a "grapheme cluster" we simply call a grapheme.
Also see <http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Unicode.pdf> and
<http://useless-factor.blogspot.com/2007/08/unicode-implementers-guide-part-4.html>
for other signs of "grapheme" (as we use it) becoming a common concept
in Unicode. Heck, just do a google search for "unicode grapheme".
(And, of course, we'd love to run AppleScript 2.0 on Parrot.)
Allison
