On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:02:56PM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
[1] It would be possible to compose character names for the life-time of
the process, but these names would need to be checked for uniqueness
(performance problem).
With our grapheme approach we will certainly compose
IMHO something like the Perl 5
charnames::viacode(ord($char));
charnames::vianame($charname);
is needed in Perl 6.
Use cases:
- test
- diagnosis
- manipulation on charname-level (e.g. get base character of
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE, which has no de-composition)
To be defined
