On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 19:30:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
It seems code points are kind of useless because they don't
really mean anything, would that be accurate? -- Andrei
It might help to think of code points as being a kind of byte
code for a text-representing VM.
It's not meaningless, but it also isn't trivial and relevant
metrics can only be seen in application.
BTW you don't even have to get into unicode to hit complications.
Tab, backspace, carriage return, these are part of ASCII but
already complicate questions.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6792812/the-backspace-escape-character-b-in-c-unexpected-behavior
came up on a quick search. Does the backspace character reduce
the length of a string? In some contexts, maybe.
