Oh look, another language (ceylon)

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Le lundi 18 novembre 2013 14:31:33 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
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> ...   choose one of the three bad choices:  ...
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> * choose UTF-16 or UTF-8, and have O(n) primitive string operations (like 
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> Haskell and, apparently, Ceylon);
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> * or UTF-16 without support for the supplementary planes (which makes it 
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> virtually UCS-2), like Javascript;
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> * choose UTF-32, and use two or four times as much memory as needed.
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Nothing can beat the coding schemes endorsed by Unicode.

They are all working on the smallest possible entity
level (Unicode Transformation *Units*) with a unique
set of these entities.

To not forget. A set of characters is an artificial
construction and by nature it can not follow the
logic of a more "natural" set, eg. integers.

jmf