On 11/30/2018 03:57 PM, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
There are several problems with this. One, how many bits do you set aside per character? 8? 16? There are potentially an open ended set of stylings that one might use.
I acknowledge that the idea I shared was incomplete and likely has shortcomings. But I do think that it demonstrates a concept, which is what I was after.
Second problem---where do you store such bits? Not to imply this is a bad idea, just that there are issues that need to be resolved with how things are done today (how does this interact with UTF-8 for instance? Or UCS-4?).
Ideally, I'd like to see UTF-8 / UTF-16 code points (?) for the different styles of a letter. Not every letter (character ~> byte / double) needs the styling. So I suspect that it would be better to judiciously place code points in the UTF-8 / UTF-16 space.
Sadly, when I try to search for "this", the letters aren't found in "๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐" or "๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐". Something that I think should work.
Also, storage of these letters can work just like it is in this email. ;-) -- Grant. . . . unix || die
