From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Strange crash on custom iterator
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 03:07:55 +0100
Date: 2018-07-05T03:07:55+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <176034645.552448963.078419.laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f8872879-623f-4712-8600-9f6ce8360c24@googlegroups.com
Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Shark8, what would be the better solution for character-encoding itself?
>> (not whole words)
>
> Whole-word isn't a terrible idea, per se. But the thrust I was getting at
> is the delination between languages: with Unicode it's a sequence of
> codepoints, independent of the actual item (word, sentence, etc) other
> than [perhaps] graphic-presented. That the example is (Eng,Eng,Eng...Eng,
> Heb,Heb,Heb,Heb, Eng,Eng,Eng...) codepoints is not the problem, though
> related, because it discards all information in favor of (num, num, num,
> num, ...) rather than actually considering alternate languages: IMO,
> ("The Hebrew word for man" (quote ADAM) (quote "Adam") ".") is much
> better as 'text' because we're preserving structure: [ENGLISH [THIS
> SECTION HEBREW] ENGLISH].
>
I don’t understand why you think Unicode should carry linguistic
information when all it has ever been designed to do is encode symbols
across all languages and their direction.
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2018-06-30 10:48 Strange crash on custom iterator Lucretia
2018-06-30 11:32 ` Simon Wright
2018-06-30 12:02 ` Lucretia
2018-06-30 14:25 ` Simon Wright
2018-06-30 14:33 ` Lucretia
2018-06-30 19:25 ` Simon Wright
2018-06-30 19:36 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-07-01 18:06 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2018-07-01 19:59 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-02 17:43 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-07-02 19:42 ` Simon Wright
2018-07-03 14:08 ` Lucretia
2018-07-03 14:17 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-03 15:06 ` Lucretia
2018-07-03 15:45 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-03 15:55 ` Lucretia
2018-07-03 17:00 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-03 15:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-03 16:07 ` Lucretia
2018-07-03 16:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-03 16:42 ` Lucretia
2018-07-03 16:45 ` Lucretia
2018-07-03 20:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-03 21:04 ` Lucretia
2018-07-04 1:26 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 1:59 ` Lucretia
2018-07-04 7:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 12:46 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 13:37 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2018-07-04 7:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-03 18:54 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-03 20:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 7:33 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-04 7:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 9:55 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-04 10:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 11:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-04 13:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 14:37 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 14:43 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 14:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2018-07-04 15:41 ` Lucretia
2018-07-04 16:55 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 18:01 ` Shark8
2018-07-04 18:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 19:53 ` Shark8
2018-07-04 20:05 ` Lucretia
2018-07-04 22:04 ` Shark8
2018-07-05 0:12 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 1:46 ` Shark8
2018-07-05 2:07 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2018-07-05 16:47 ` Shark8
2018-07-05 17:19 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-05 19:14 ` Shark8
2018-07-04 20:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 17:51 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2018-07-04 18:06 ` Shark8
2018-07-04 18:59 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-07-04 19:01 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-05 18:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-05 19:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 21:00 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2018-07-05 18:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-07-04 19:02 ` G. B.
2018-07-04 19:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 20:40 ` G. B.
2018-07-04 20:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-04 21:21 ` G.B.
2018-07-05 7:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-06 8:28 ` G.B.
2018-07-06 8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-07-02 8:31 ` Lucretia
2018-06-30 14:34 ` Lucretia
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