"A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode"

[Janusz S. Bien]

Quote/Cytat - William_J_G Overington <wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com> (Mon  
13 Mar 2017 12:24:13 PM CET):

> Prof. Janusz S. Bień wrote:
>
>> Just yet another reason for introducing the notion of textel?
>
> I opine that it would be a good idea to introduce several new words,  
> of which textel would be one, with each such new word having a  
> precisely-defined meaning so that in precise discussions of  
> programming techniques people could discuss the situation without  
> needing to use any of the words character, code point, grapheme  
> cluster.
>
> How many such new words would be needed?

In my paper (in Polish)

http://bc.klf.uw.edu.pl/480/

I propose also the term "texton" meaning a code point from a specific  
subset, not yet fully defined, but including at least the components  
of composite characters.

Best regards

Janusz

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Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bień -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra  
Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
jsbien at uw.edu.pl, jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/