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

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Tim Hill once stated:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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 :)

  Don't misunderstand me, I know why it's that way too (he says, as he grabs
the nearest hole punch).  I was just pointing out that in ASCII, not
everything was grouped together.

  -spc (Now, where did that paper tape end up?)