Le vendredi 26 juillet 2013 05:09:34 UTC+2, Michael Torrie a écrit :
> On 07/25/2013 11:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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> > JMF has explained that it is impossible, impossible I say!, to write an
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> > editor using a flexible string representation. Since Emacs uses such a
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> > flexible string representation, Emacs is impossible, and therefore Emacs
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> > doesn't exist.
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> Now I'm even more confused. He once pointed to Go as an example of how
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> unicode should be done in a language. yet Go uses UTF-8 I think.
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> But I don't think UTF-8 is what JMF refers to as "flexible string
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> representation." FSR does use 1,2 or 4 bytes per character, but each
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> character in the string uses the same width. That's different from
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> UTF-8 or UTF-16, which is variable width per character.
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>>> sys.getsizeof('––') - sys.getsizeof('–')
I have already explained / commented this.
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Hint: To understand Unicode (and every coding scheme), you should
understand "utf". The how and the *why*.
jmf
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