On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see it as a useful thing to have predefined character sets that don't need > to be managed.
So you just want more things like +whitespaceCharacterSet? That makes sense. > At the very least, I will probably submit a radar on adding locale-specific > standard sets. > The standard set is woefully Latin-centric. > Many languages do not use whitespace the same way (generally as word > boundaries). > [snip] > I know, some of this leads to things like tokenization. Well, in that specific instance, you should not be doing word splitting yourself. You should instead use CFStringTokenizer. > Point being, if we look beyond English and Western Europe, and consider how > much of programming is pushing text around, it certainly seems like a > logical expansion that would be of benefit to a lot of people. > Maybe it's just me, not trying to hog the list. At some point you have to decide that it isn't worth adding more API. I certainly would not want NSCharacterSet to expose the power set of all Unicode characters. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
