I've always wondered how to deal with exported versus unexported identifiers in scripts like Chinese?
On Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 3:08:59 PM UTC+1 ba...@iitbombay.org wrote: > In Indic scripts in certain contexts you have to use a vowel sign for the > typography to make sense; you can’t use a vowel letter in its place. So for > example the middle “ku” in my name has to be written as ક+ુ — which will be > rendered as કુ — even though it is equivalent to ક+્+ઉ. Also, “halant” (્), > is not a letter! > > I would strongly urge Nikhilesh and other people wanting to use any Indic > script to **avoid* * it (even if Go implements TR31 as in Swift) and > instead use the lossless transliteration scheme of IAST if the program > calls for an Indian word as a Go object name. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration> > > > On Nov 6, 2022, at 4:02 AM, Rob Pike <r...@golang.org> wrote: > > > > % unicode -d పే > > U+0C2A 'ప' telugu letter pa > > U+0C47 'ే' telugu vowel sign ee > > % unicode -U C2A C47 > > U+0C2A 'ప' TELUGU LETTER PA > > category: Lo > > canonical combining classes: 0 > > bidirectional category: L > > mirrored: N > > U+0C47 'ే' TELUGU VOWEL SIGN EE > > category: Mn > > canonical combining classes: 0 > > bidirectional category: NSM > > mirrored: N > > % > > > The problem is the second code point, U+0C47, Telugu vowel sign EE. It is > not in the letter class. If I change your program to use just the first > code point, it works: https://play.golang.com/p/eNvuZH33s65 > > > The rules for identifiers in Go were chosen because they are easy to > implement, but they do have the problem that they do not treat all > languages equally. They may expand one day, but at the moment this is the > situation. > > > There are a number of open issues around this. Start with > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20706 if you want to read more. > > > -rob > > > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 9:52 PM Konstantin Khomoutov <kos...@bswap.ru> > wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 01:45:53PM +0530, Nikhilesh Susarla wrote: >> >> >> Per the Go spec[1], an identifier consists of a Unicode letter >> followed by >> >> zero or more Unicode letters or digits. The character పే is in the >> Unicode >> >> category nonspacing mark rather than the category letter. >> [...] >> > So, if the unicode letters are there in the nonspacing mark as you >> > mentioned they can't be used right ? >> >> I sense the source of your misunderstanding might be rooted in your lack >> of >> certain basics about Unicode. You seem to call "a letter" anything which >> may >> appear in a text document (a Go source code file is a text document) but >> this >> it not true. Maybe that's just a terminological problem, but still the >> fact >> is, the Unicode standard calls "letters" a very particular group of things >> among those the Unicode standard describes. To give a very simplified >> example, >> in the text string "foo bar" there are six letters (five distinct) and one >> space character which is not a letter. The charcter being discussed is >> not a >> letter in Unicode, either. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/20221106105154.xkoemtt6tx25flam%40carbon >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOXNBZS085qwY5tXj%3Di5MeBguXeemHYBmSzjZks--MNmALohcg%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOXNBZS085qwY5tXj%3Di5MeBguXeemHYBmSzjZks--MNmALohcg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/f2f8e29a-9a71-441a-84ea-b7f9e3a82d8en%40googlegroups.com.
