09-Mar-2014 21:54, Vladimir Panteleev пишет:
On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 17:48:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
wc

What should wc produce on a Sanskrit text?

The problem is that such questions quickly become philosophical.

Technically it could use word-braking algorithm for words.
Or count grapheme clusters, or count code points it all may have value, depending on the user and writing system.


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Dmitry Olshansky

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