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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 02:54:49 -0000 (UTC)
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It appears that Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> said:
>On Sat, 11 May 2024 18:49:12 +0200, David Brown wrote:
>
>> People often think it is easier to do string manipulation - joining,
>> splitting, replacing, etc., - when you have fixed size units per
>> character.
>
>It is easy enough to come up with a fixed-size representation for 
>characters in Python (or other suitably powerful language), where 
>“character” = “non-combining code point plus all immediately-following 
>combining code points”.

I have to ask, how much storage do each of these fixed-size character
things take?

How do you know?

I've been poking at Unicode for a while and I don't have the faintest
idea, particularly if you include groups of emoji with ZWJ that are
rendered as one image, as in this ever increasing list.  Groups
can have 9 code points, maybe more:

https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-zwj-sequences.html

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