Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| Lars> | I was wondering whether we could have a insetunicodeaccent.
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| Lars> I'd say that would be pointless. If we need such a beast, it
| Lars> should be internal to the frontend. (I.e. the frontend must do
| Lars> what it has to to support combining chars, chars and don't have
| Lars> an available glyph etc.)
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| But this means that the length of a docstring is not much more usable
| than the length of an utf-8 string.
No, you are right. It has similar problems to utf-8. except that
codepoints is still single item (4-byte)
And the backend should only look at codepoints and not care too much
about combining chars and the like.
| Also, cursor movement will be
| much more complicated. This is not a frontend matter only IMO.
The displaying is a frontend matter.
Even cursor movement (on screen) should be a frontendmatter.
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Lgb
