On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 13:47:32 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
Misunderstanding. All examples work properly today because of
autodecoding. -- Andrei
They only work "properly" if you define "properly" as "in terms
of code points". But working in terms of code points is usually
wrong. If you want to count "characters", you need to work with
graphemes.
https://dpaste.dzfl.pl/817dec505fd2
I agree. It has happened to me that characters like "é" return
length == 2, which has been the cause of some bugs in my code.
I'm wiser now, of course, but you wouldn't expect this, if you
write
if (input.length == 1)
speakCharacter(input); // e.g. when spelling a word
else
processInput(input);
The worst thing is that you never know, what's going on under the
hood and where autodecode slows you down, unbeknownst to yourself.
