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If you're truncating by character (or WHATEVER) counts, you are guaranteed to be doing it wrong - maybe not in your native language, but in somebody's. Heck, e

• millstone 13y ago
  But truncation is very often needed when you have more text than space. What's the alternative?
  • gliese1337 13y ago
    If it's storage space, you truncate by bytes, rounding down to the nearest complete grapheme- no need to count graphemes. If it's display space, truncate by pixels, in which case you need "size in device units of the output text from a rendering engine". Again, no need to count graphemes.
    • dustyleary 13y ago
      Counting graphemes and detecting "the nearest complete grapheme" are basically the same problem. The only reason counting graphemes is hard is because detecting grapheme boundaries is hard.
    • oneeyedpigeon 13y ago
      Of course, neither of those approaches solves the 'ass-' problem, which is possibly a red herring.