Re: Matching Unicode strings and combining characters [was: basic

From: Mark Leisher (mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 15:17:49 EDT


    Geoffrey> I did it several years ago. It is much easier when you accept
    Geoffrey> that most of the complexity in Unicode is there for good
    Geoffrey> technical reasons and to work with it rather than twist it to
    Geoffrey> fit old ASCII programming practices.

This is an excellent point. On the surface, Unicode seems a much more
complicated approach. It really isn't once you start working with it. The
complications primarily arise outside the realm of the character set proper.
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