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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: Unicode in strings
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 08:29:12 -0000 (UTC)
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Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> schrieb:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>Does Unicode even has the notion of "character", really?
>
> AFAIK it does not.  But applications like palindrome checkers care
> about characters, not code points.

Considering the huge market for palindrome checkers, that is a
real concern, especially if they involve characters for which
UTF-32 is not sufficient, such as smileys.

Is there any language whose characters cannot be represented in
UTF-32?