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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: How to read in a (long) UTF-8 file, incrementally?
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:25:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <sn0ijs$7v2$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f0d17e38-58c7-4914-ab9c-8632cecc8215n@googlegroups.com

On 16/11/2021 11:55, Marius Amado-Alves wrote:
> I'm worried. I need the concept of character, for proper text processing. For example, I want to reference characters in a text file by their position. Any tips/references on how to deal with combining characters, or any other perturbating feature of Unicode, greatly appreciated.
> 
> (For me, a combining character is not a character, the combination is. Unicode agrees, right?)
> 

You can't. The concept of character is dead, the new concept are 
grapheme clusters.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-16 15:25 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
2021-11-16 17:38             ` Vadim Godunko
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