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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Strange crash on custom iterator
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 20:57:34 +0200
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Date: 2018-07-04T20:57:34+02:00
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On 2018-07-04 20:01, Shark8 wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 10:55:08 AM UTC-6, Dan'l Miller wrote:

> As an example, the sentence "The Hebrew word for 'man' is 'אדם' (Adam)."  is *NOT* merely a sequence of graphemes, codepoints, and/or bytes. It is a semantically meaningful text consisting of multiple languages... and *this* is what Unicode discards.

And rightly so. Like 91093835.6 is just a number instead "meaningful": 
the mass of a stationary electron.

One fundamental principle of software design is abstraction in the sense 
of throwing away unnecessary information. A printer may know nothing 
about Hebrew.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de