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Unicode handling? Perl 6 seems to be the only language I've seen that truly grapples with the complexity of Unicode -- at least when it comes to combining char
by Sniffnoy 10y ago
Unicode handling? Perl 6 seems to be the only language I've seen that truly grapples with the complexity of Unicode -- at least when it comes to combining characters and normal forms. Seems other languages generally just assume that one code point is one "character".
- Scarblac 10y agoSo how many large "Unicode handling" applications have you seen recently? For most people the Unicode handling isn't the main problem they're solving, and most languages are more or less good enough now.
- marcosdumay 10y agoIt's more than that. Yes, every other language has flaws on Unicode handling. But those flaws persist exactly because they are not important. It's been I long time I don't write a "Unicode handling" application, yet the only environment where I ever got problems with it on the last decade was .Net. And it was a very small problem, worked around in less time than I've lost on this HN page.
- empath75 10y agoSwift supposedly also gets deep into the weeds with Unicode.