In article <e094f9eb04102006096b92c870@mail.gmail.com>, Rogier van Dalen <rogiervd@gmail.com> wrote:
So unicode::string<unicode::codepoint string<std::string> > would be a UTF8-encoded string that is manipulated using its characters.
Encoded characters or abstract characters? (See section 2.4 of Unicode standard for definitions)
I mean a base character with its combining characters. I don't think this is the same as "abstract character", is it?
That is an abstract character, yes.
My plan was to decompose all characters in unicode::string. This makes manipulation of diacritics easier. Correct me if I'm wrong, but your example of finding "ΓΌ" in a string would come down to finding the codepoint sequence "U+0075 U+0308" and checking whether it is not followed by another combining character, pretty trivial still.
You have to not only decompose them but put them in a canonical decomposed order in order for that to work. meeroh