"A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode"

J Decker d3ck0r at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 12:55:18 CDT 2017


I liked the Go implementation of character type - a rune type - which is a
codepoint.  and strings that return runes from by index.
https://blog.golang.org/strings

Doesn't solve the problem for composited codepoints though...

texel looks to be defined as a graphic element already.  TEXture ELement.



On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Janusz S. Bien <jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl>
wrote:

> Quote/Cytat - Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix.netcom.com> (Mon 13 Mar 2017
> 06:00:08 PM CET):
>
> [...]
>
> This (or similar) scenarios indicate the impossibility to come to a
> single, universal definition of a "textel" -- the main reason why this
> term is of lower utility than "pixel".
>
> I agree that it is impossible  to come to a single, universal definition
> of text elements, but it seems possible to reach a consensus on a kind of
> the least common denominator of them and call it "textel" or something else.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Janusz
>
> --
> 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/
>
>
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