> 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...

This probably isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it's at least
in the right direction:

  <http://www.unicode.org/faq/specifications.html>

  Q: The Unicode Standard and related standards contain a number of
  specifications or guidelines for dealing with different programming
  tasks. Sometimes it's hard to find these. Is there a central place to
  look?

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