30 Nov
2018
30 Nov
'18
3:11 p.m.
On 11/30/2018 03:57 PM, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
There are several problems with this. One, how many
bits do you set
aside per character? 8? 16? There are potentially an open ended set
of stylings that one might use.
I acknowledge that the idea I shared was incomplete and likely has
shortcomings. But I do think that it demonstrates a concept, which is
what I was after.
Second problem---where do you store such bits? Not to
imply this is a
bad idea, just that there are issues that need to be resolved with how
things are done today (how does this interact with UTF-8 for instance?
Or UCS-4?).
Ideally, I'd like to see UTF-8 / UTF-16 code points (?) for the
different styles of a letter. Not every letter (character ~> byte /
double) needs the styling. So I suspect that it would be better to
judiciously place code points in the UTF-8 / UTF-16 space.
Sadly, when I try to search for "this", the letters aren't found in
"???? ?? ? ??????" or "???? ?? ? ???????".
Something that I think should work.
Also, storage of these letters can work just like it is in this email. ;-)
--
Grant. . . .
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