Re:It’s Not Wrong that “ ”.length == 7
by lowdownfork on Friday June 02, 2023 @03:17PM
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As far as I can tell, you're only missing two things:
1. It's five "Unicode scalars," that's the name for the top-level logical unit. The term "code points" technically refers to a lower-level concept, one that varies across encodings, just not as much as the number of bytes. I didn't know that, and it's the helpful thing I learned from this article.
2. The author takes it as an unstated assumption that top-level logical structure is useless because any specific usage either ignores all structure or has a point at which low-level structure comes into play. (That assumption is false: Top-level structure is useful for keeping track of what you are doing and as a sort of "common currency" for translating between different low level representations. For example, see the very first table in the article.)
1. It's five "Unicode scalars," that's the name for the top-level logical unit. The term "code points" technically refers to a lower-level concept, one that varies across encodings, just not as much as the number of bytes. I didn't know that, and it's the helpful thing I learned from this article.
2. The author takes it as an unstated assumption that top-level logical structure is useless because any specific usage either ignores all structure or has a point at which low-level structure comes into play. (That assumption is false: Top-level structure is useful for keeping track of what you are doing and as a sort of "common currency" for translating between different low level representations. For example, see the very first table in the article.)