11 Feb
2011
11 Feb
'11
2:57 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 16:52, Chad Nelson <chad.thecomfychair@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:07:58 +0100 Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
The size in code points is not a very useful thing in general.
On the contrary, keeping track of the length of the string is *very* useful. The alternative is to calculate it on the fly, whenever someone asks for it. If you want that, you can always go back to using C-style strings.
I understand why it's useful to know how long it is in encoding units, but the number of code points seems quite useless to me. Can you elaborate? ~ Scott