You know, it's a shame that we - *PLT nerds*, not *typographers* - are having to sit and debate how computers should model text. I feel it's a failing of the Unicode community that they've just defined a list of codepoints and some algorithms, and not even suggested any programming models, leaving each programming language (that has strings as base types, some do not) to have to work out their own idea of what a "character" is...
ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/author/alaric/ _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
