On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 03:30:53PM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 5/27/16 3:10 PM, ag0aep6g wrote: > > I don't think there is value in distinguishing by language. The > > point of Unicode is that you shouldn't need to do that. > > It seems code points are kind of useless because they don't really > mean anything, would that be accurate? -- Andrei
That's what we've been trying to say all along! :-P They're a kind of low-level Unicode construct used for building "real" characters, i.e., what a layperson would consider to be a "character". T -- English is useful because it is a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess, though in the nicest of all possible ways. -- Larry Wall