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> If you deal with things on screen or what humans perceive as character (graphemes) then there is nothing really that can help you at the encoding level becaus
by tripzilch 13y ago
> If you deal with things on screen or what humans perceive as character (graphemes) then there is nothing really that can help you at the encoding level because graphemes can be arbitrarily long with regard to code points:
> e̬̱ͤ̈́̿̂̅́͟x̰̞̻̼̻̼͉̰ͫͧ̑͂͊͜ͅa̶̳͖͔̞̰͈̯͓͆̓̎̉̏̎̚m̛̮̩͙ͦ͗͆̄̋́̄p͎̥̠͈̮͚̾ͅl̛̗̈̄e̴̞̫͖̝̘̋̑̄̎ͥͬ̾
As how many characters am I supposed to perceive this, anyway? Some of those tiny squiggles are in fact letters (I mean they look like letters, I see an e,m,u,o,i and r in there). What if you'd make a crossword this way?
- thaumasiotes 13y agoI've experienced crosswords where e.g. the word going across uses a diacritic on a particular letter ("élan") and the word going down doesn't. It drives me crazy.
- riffraff 13y agoFYI, that is the way crosswords work in italian, accents are considered irrelevant.
- dbaupp 13y agoIt says "example" with a pile of combining characters (77 to be precise): http://i.imgur.com/acyHBkR.png http://i.imgur.com/acyHBkR.png