Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread sylvain . bertrand
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 09:46:29PM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > thanks for your feedback! I'm glad you like it. This is still at > version "0", so if you have any suggestions for the API that might come > to mind, let me know. Huho! How about making it "work" with "One Compilation Unit" projects

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:32:24 +0100 Mattias Andrée wrote: Dear Mattias, > This sounds absolutely horrible. Non-pre-composed characters are not > widely well support and are often rendered terribly, some software > (like the Linux VT) cannot even rendering them. yes, the Linux VT is a good exampl

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:24:22 + wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:24:52PM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > > ... This will cover 99.5% of all cases... > > What do you mean? They managed to add in grapheme cluster definition some > weird > edge cases up to 0.5%?? > > About string comparison

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:24:22 + sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sylvain, > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:24:52PM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > > ... This will cover 99.5% of all cases... > > What do you mean? They managed to add in grapheme cluster definition > some weird edge cases up

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread sylvain . bertrand
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:24:52PM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > ... This will cover 99.5% of all cases... What do you mean? They managed to add in grapheme cluster definition some weird edge cases up to 0.5%?? About string comparison: if I recall well, after utf-8 normalization (n11n), strings

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:03:48 +0100 v4hn wrote: Dear Michael, > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 09:49:46PM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > > thank you very much! Especially regarding understandability, given > > this topic is really a bit "specific". :) > > On that note, do you work on this very specifi

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread v4hn
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 09:49:46PM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > thank you very much! Especially regarding understandability, given this > topic is really a bit "specific". :) On that note, do you work on this very specific subproblem out of curiosity or do you work on concrete software projects t

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:58:16 + sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sylvain, > On this very mailing list we already had some exchange of thoughts > about the unicode grapheme cluster. > One question which was stuck into my head after this exchange was: > how many of unicode "scripts" can b

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread sylvain . bertrand
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 08:00:58PM +, Tait Hoyem wrote: > I would also like to avoid Warnock's dilemma. +1 On this very mailing list we already had some exchange of thoughts about the unicode grapheme cluster. One question which was stuck into my head after this exchange was: how many of uni

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:00:58 + Tait Hoyem wrote: Dear Tait, > I would also like to avoid Warnock's dilemma. > Looks very interesting! And even a complete newb like me can > understand it :) Well done! thank you very much! Especially regarding understandability, given this topic is really a

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Dominik Madarász
I'd like to join in and say this is a wonderful work you made. I'm looking forward to the updates. Best luck, Dominik. On 27/03/2020, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:53:30 + > Michael Hendricks wrote: > > Dear Michael, > >> To avoid Warnock's dilemma, let me just say that thi

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:53:30 + Michael Hendricks wrote: Dear Michael, > To avoid Warnock's dilemma, let me just say that this looks > excellent. The API and implementation is clean and focused. Thank you > for publishing this library. thanks for your feedback! I'm glad you like it. This is

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Tait Hoyem
I would also like to avoid Warnock's dilemma. Looks very interesting! And even a complete newb like me can understand it :) Well done! Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, March 27, 2020 6:53 PM, Michael Hendricks wrote: > > I'm very glad to announce l

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Michael Hendricks
> I'm very glad to announce libgrapheme[0], a library for handling grapheme > clusters. To avoid Warnock's dilemma, let me just say that this looks excellent. The API and implementation is clean and focused. Thank you for publishing this library.