[Haskell-cafe] Re: PROPOSAL: New efficient Unicode string library.

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Ross Paterson wrote:
>
> Combining characters are not an issue here, just the surrogate pairs,
> because we're discussing representations of sequences of Chars (Unicode
> code points).

I dislike referring to unicode code points as "characters" because that
tends to imply a lot of invalid simplifications.

Tony.
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