Re: What things are called (was Non-ascii string processing)

From: jon@spin.ie
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 07:43:33 CST


> (2) The object currently called a "character" be renamed as something
>
> like "mapped codepoint" or "encoded codepoint", or possibly
> (coming in
> from the other end) something like "sub-character" or "character
>
> component" or "characterette" (which can be shortened to
> "charette" and
> pronounced "carrot". :-) )

charette would just get confused with caret :)



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