15 Jan
2011
15 Jan
'11
6:11 a.m.
On 01/14/2011 07:16 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Patrick Horgan<phorgan1@gmail.com> wrote:
... elision ... I don't understand. UCS-32 (I assume you meant encoded as UTF-32) is a fixed width encoding so the n-th character is just 4n away from the beginning of the string. Right? No. The nth code point is 4n bytes from the beginning of the string, but characters may be made of a combination of adjacent code points. Ahhhh! Of course this occurred to me moments after clicking send. lol! There should be a name for that phenomenon. Some correlation to staircase wit.
Patrick