On 2007-09-27, Ross Paterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:26:07AM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote: >> On 2007-09-27, Ross Paterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Combining characters are not an issue here, just the surrogate pairs, >> > because we're discussing representations of sequences of Chars (Unicode >> > code points). >> >> You'll never want to combine combining characters or vice-versa? Never >> want to figure out how much screen space a sequence will take? It _is_ >> an issue. > > It's an issue for a higher layer, not for a compact String representation.
Yes, and no. It's not something the lower layer should be doing, but enabling the higher layers to do so efficiently is a concern. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
