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Then UTF-8 should not be operated on directly. When reading from a file etc., first decode the input into an internal string format that has straight-forward li

by bmn__ 5y ago

Then UTF-8 should not be operated on directly. When reading from a file etc., first decode the input into an internal string format that has straight-forward linear access to each gc boundary.

eesmith 5y ago
Even then, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence . What does "matching character" mean given combining characters?
- rocqua 5y ago
  Probably pick a canonical encoding and compare there.
  - ygra 5y ago
    Yeah, that's what the normalization forms are for. But still, almost no question how to do things in Unicode can be answered in a single sentence without disregarding 99 % of the complexity.