Planning: strings and unicode

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Planning: strings and unicode #36

Open LB-- opened 8 years ago

LB-- commented 8 years ago

There is some good discussion in https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/so-about-strings-and-unicode/52250/

Also, Perl 6 seems to be handling things in the ideal way: https://6guts.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/this-week-unicode-normalization-many-rts/

Separate types and treatments for bytes, code points, and graphemes.

LB-- commented 8 years ago

Certainly, UTF-8 will only be used via byte buffers (which are possibly behind a strong type alias) and signed types will be nowhere nearby. Signed code units can die in a fire.