Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:34:25AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> I'm not sure what kind of use case for unicode_char() you are thinking
> about. Anyway if you want a "code point" from a character, we could
> easily add such functions to all backend encodings currently we
> support. Probably it would look like:

I think the problem is that most encodings do not have the concept of a
code point anyway, so implementing it for them is fairly useless.

> An example outputs are:
>
> ASCII - 41
> ISO 10646 - U+0041
> ISO 10646 - U+29E3D
> ISO 8859-1 - a5
> JIS X 0208 - 4141

In every case other than Unicode you're doing the same thing as
encode/decode. Since we already have those functions, there's no need
to get chr/ascii to duplicate it. In the case of UTF-8 however, it does
something that is not done by encode/decode, hence the proposal to
simply extend chr/ascii to do that.

Have a nice day,
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