Re: byteoffset() in lutf8lib.c from 5.3, work2

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On May 13, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:

> It was thus said that the Great Coroutines once stated:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> But while it stands, it is a magnificent structure.
>> 
>> Er, I am in direct disagreement.  I'm saying the characters in the
>> UTF8 standard (the only one I care about) are organized in categories
>> but not function.  Whitespace is not together, punctuation is not
>> together, and it's not easy to convert between cases as easy as it was
>> in ASCII.  It would have been organized better, but it wasn't -- we
>> could have avoided these mappings, but it's done..
> 
>  But I can say the same of ASCII---the control characters aren't together
> (don't forget DEL, at code point 127) and punctuation is all over the map. 
> ASCII just happens to fit easily inside the most commonly used addressable
> unit.
> 
>  -spc
> 
> 

Well now, there is a *very* good reason for DEL being at 127 .. and only old-timers like me (and maybe Dirk) would know it :)

—Tim