What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023

Post by School-Cotton » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 5:58 PM UTC

Findecanor wrote: post #217

orphea wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you type "a", combine it with "´", then change your mind and hit backspace, you probably want to end up with "a" even through "á" was a thing "visually displayed as a single unit".

Most European keyboard layouts have it the other way around: first press a "dead key" for the diacritic mark and then the letter to apply it to. Where some layouts may require this method for some characters, another keyboard layout may have the same character on a dedicated key. The program receives the combined character as one unit, and does not need to be aware of different keyboard layouts.

Post by rkagerer » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 6:02 PM UTC

rkagerer wrote: post #230

" the definition of graphemes changes from version to version " In what twisted reality did someone think this a good idea? Doesn't it go against the whole premise of everyone in the world agreeing on how to represent a meaningful unit of text? " What’s sad for us is that the rules defining grapheme clusters change every year as well. What is considered a sequence of two or three separate code points today might beco…

Post by neonate » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 6:07 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #54

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Post by lbltavares » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 6:13 PM UTC

davidham wrote: post #10

Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing what looks like the mouse pointer of everyone else reading the page, like 1,000 little ants on the screen

Post by WD-42 » Mon, Oct 02, 2023, 6:18 PM UTC

zzzeek wrote: post #30

davidham wrote: post #10

Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing what looks like the mouse pointer of everyone else reading the page, like 1,000 little ants on the screen

yeah....why on earth would someone want their webpage to do this, especially if they have text they'd presumably want you to read?