What constitute? an abstract character?
Ken Whistler
kenwhistler at sonic.net
Mon Jun 15 10:03:10 CDT 2020
Not an interesting question, actually.
The units relevant to count in text, depending on what you are doing, are:
code units
code points
user-perceived characters (and other higher-level constructs which may
be orthography-specific)
"abstract characters" are an artifact of the formal encoding process.
They are really only "counted" by character encoding committees, not by
software processing text strings.
--Ken
On 6/15/2020 7:33 AM, Sławomir Osipiuk via Unicode wrote:
>
> I believe the underlying question is:
>
> How does one programmatically identify and/or count the abstract
> characters in a Unicode text?
>
> Sławomir Osipiuk
>
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