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Bryan C. Warnock  
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 More options Apr 25 2004, 9:34 pm
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From: bryan.warn...@raba.com (Bryan C. Warnock)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:34:53 -0400
Local: Sun, Apr 25 2004 9:34 pm
Subject: Re: One change to the strings document
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On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 16:34, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Just a heads up, there are two things that have been pointed out.

> First, the transset op is transcharset. The abbreviation was a bit sloppy.

> Second, in spots where "character" is used, substitute "grapheme", as
> I'm going to. Noting, of course, that a grapheme is *not* a glyph.
> Glyphs are display things that we're staying very very (very!) far
> away from. The change'll go into the op names--getglyph instead of
> getcharacter and suchlike things.

> Hopefully using a different word'll help people remember that
> glyph!=codepoint, though we'll see how well that one works.

I don't understand.  Substitute grapheme for character, as you're
staying away from glyphs, but "getglyph" for "getcharacter"?

And what about codepoints that *are* glyphs and/but aren't graphemes?

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Bryan C. Warnock
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