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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange crash on custom iterator
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 03:07:55 +0100
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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.