RE: Newbie questions: 1) Surrogates in WinXP? 2) Unicode in PostScript?

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 02:32:25 EDT

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At 10:49 PM 4/7/2004, Peter Constable wrote:
> >, and the length it reports
> > is the number of code units, not the number of characters or graphemes
>in
> > the string.
>
>True; that is documented.

However, that's very common; many APIs relating to UTF-8 would report
the number of bytes, not the number of characters.

While it's interesting to have a method that can derive grapheme
boundaries, e.g. for UI support, it's far less useful to get a grapheme count.

A./

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