Re:Ask HN: Is Unicode Designed Badly?
by indil on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:37PM
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>Why would your data structure make that easy to do?
Reversing a string merely indicates the problem. There are many cases for operating on graphemes instead of code points. For example, deleting the previous grapheme in a text editor when pressing backspace/delete. I think most programmers assume they're dealing with graphemes when they're actually dealing with code points. See, for example, the rune type in Go.
Reversing a string merely indicates the problem. There are many cases for operating on graphemes instead of code points. For example, deleting the previous grapheme in a text editor when pressing backspace/delete. I think most programmers assume they're dealing with graphemes when they're actually dealing with code points. See, for example, the rune type in Go.