On Sunday, 9 March 2014 at 14:57:32 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
You have mentioned case-insensitive searching, but I think I've adequately demonstrated that this doesn't work in general by code point: you need to normalize and take locales into account.
I don't understand what your argument. Is it "by code point is not 100% correct, so let's just drop it and go for raw code units instead?"
We *are* arguing about whether or not "front/popFront" should decode by dchar, right...?
You mention the algorithms "Searching, equality testing, copying, sorting, hashing, splitting, joining..." I said "by codepoint is not correct", but I still think it's a hell of a lot more accurate than by codeunit. Unless you want to ignore any and all algorithms that takes a predicate?
You say "unless you are willing to ignore languages like Turkish", but... If you don't decode front, than aren't you just ignoring *all* languages that basically aren't English....?
As I said, maybe by codepoint is not correct, but if it isn't, I think we should be moving further *into* the correct behavior by default, not away from it.
