Character doesn't mean anything

cor3ntin commented 4 years ago

In the wording, depending on context, the term character can designate

An abstract character in the source encoding
An abstract character in the execution encoding
A code point in the
A code unit
An instance of a character type (char, char8_t, charc16_t, etc), which doesn't represent a character type
...

More critically, this confusion is source of bugs, or unsupported feature ( for example, is it possible to have a non-ascii digital separator?)

We should fix that but its a lot of work There is a bit of code wording to change and quite a bit of change which might be required to <filesystem>, <string>, <regex>, <locale>, <format>, <iostream>

tahonermann commented 4 years ago

I think this is a particular case of updates that we would do for issue #7. Can you provide a rationale for keeping this issue open as a separate task?

tahonermann commented 4 years ago

Closing as something to be addressed as part of https://github.com/sg16-unicode/sg16/issues/7.

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Character doesn't mean anything #59