From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: How to read in a (long) UTF-8 file, incrementally?
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2021 19:55:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <lymtmixtqi.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1c6b151b-f017-496d-b381-ba08bef1bbb7n@googlegroups.com
Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com> writes:
>> Characters no longer exist as a thing as one can even be represented as
>> multiple utf-32 code points.
>
> You're alluding to combining characters?
Fun & games on macOS[1]:
> $ GNAT_FILE_NAME_CASE_SENSITIVE=1 gnatmake -c p*.ads
> gcc -c páck3.ads
> páck3.ads:1:10: warning: file name does not match unit name, should be "páck3.ads"
>
> The reason for this apparently-bizarre message is that macOS takes the
> composed form (lowercase a acute) and converts it under the hood to
> what HFS+ insists on, the fully decomposed form (lowercase a,
> combining acute); thus the names are actually different even though
> they _look_ the same.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81114#c1
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-02 17:42 How to read in a (long) UTF-8 file, incrementally? Marius Amado-Alves
2021-11-02 18:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-11-03 7:43 ` Vadim Godunko
2021-11-03 8:48 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-11-04 11:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2021-11-04 12:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-11-04 14:30 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-11-05 10:56 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2021-11-05 19:55 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2021-11-16 11:55 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2021-11-16 12:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-11-16 13:52 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2021-11-16 20:23 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-11-16 15:25 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-11-16 17:38 ` Vadim Godunko
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