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> You just said there was one canonical length for strings then gave me 4: bytes, code points, grapheme clusters and characters, each of which applies in a diff
by JohnHaugeland 5y ago
> You just said there was one canonical length for strings then gave me 4: bytes, code points, grapheme clusters and characters, each of which applies in a different context.
The other things have different labels than "length," which you've already been told.
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> Invisible/zero-width characters are not interesting when editing text
Well, tell Unicode they're wrong, then, I guess.
Have a good day.
- arcticbull 5y agoTo be clear I appreciate you sharing the official characters concept definition, and I do think it’s valuable.