Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info>: > On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 05:50 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> I might want random access to the "Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real >> characters". > > That would be nice to have, but the truth is that for most coders, > Unicode code points are the low-hanging fruit that get you 95% of the > way, and for many applications that's "close enough".
I think "close enough" is actually dangerous. We shouldn't encourage that practice. > Support for the Unicode grapheme breaking algorithm would get you > probably 90% of the rest of the way. And then some sort of > configurable system where defaults were based on the locale would > probably get you a fairly complete grapheme-based text library. Yes, that kind of a text class would be useful. > I'm interested in such a thing. That's why I pointed out the issue on > the bug tracker, to try to garner interest in it. As far as I can > tell, you seem to be more interested in cheap point scoring, digs > against Unicode, and an insistence that UTF-8 is better than strings > (which doesn't even make sense). It does seem to me UTF-8 is a better waiting position than strings. Strings give you more trouble while not truly solving any problems. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
