Re: Character counter?

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@compuserve.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 13:44:46 EST


Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:

> Characters in a UTF-8 stream? In a UTF-16 stream? Characters in the
> sense of abstract characters in the Unicode CCS? Characters in the
> sense of graphemes of some particular language?

Whoops, somehow this reminded me of another consideration. What about
combining characters (marked as NSM)? Do these count, for purposes of
the character-counting application under discussion, as separate
characters?

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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