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No it is not a program - at least not anymore than an ASCII string is a program. It is just that there isn't a simple 1:1 correspondence between bytes and char
by goto11 6y ago
No it is not a program - at least not anymore than an ASCII string is a program.
It is just that there isn't a simple 1:1 correspondence between bytes and characters and glyphs as in unicode, so you cant just extract an arbitrary byte-sequence from a string and expect it to render correctly.
- mojuba 6y ago> there isn't a simple 1:1 correspondence between bytes and characters and glyphs There isn't a simple 1:1 correspondence between anything at all. The only definitive thing about Unicode strings is the beginning where you should start your parsing. Then the way things are supposed to be displayed to be Unicode-compliant look more like some virtual machine analyzing the code. How is this different from any other declarative language?