On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:23 am, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > Though the Perl 6 folks claim their approach (encoding “characters” rather > than “code points”) is superior.
Can you explain what you are referring to precisely? According to the Perl 6 docs, they do encode code points, not "characters" (which is an ill-defined concept, and besides some Unicode code points are not characters at all). http://www.unicode.org/faq/private_use.html#noncharacters For example: https://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode talks about code points. The very first section is titled "Entering Unicode Codepoints and Codepoint Sequences". Likewise there is a method "codes" which returns the number of code points in a string: https://docs.perl6.org/routine/codes On the other hand there is also a method "chars" which returns the number of "characters" (graphemes? grapheme clusters? it doesn't specify) in the string. https://docs.perl6.org/routine/chars Anyone here got Perl 6 installed and can try it out? How many "characters" does it think the string "a\uFDD5\uFDD6z" contain? - if it says 4, that's the number of code points; - if it says 2, that's the number of characters less the number of noncharacters. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
