[e-lang] (fully qualified) names of basic types

[Mark Miller]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2009, at 22:54, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
>
>>> Char or Character?
>>
>> Does that represent a Unicode character, or a code unit?
>
>
> If you ask me, it represents a Unicode scalar value.
>
> If you ask MarkM, it's either that or a UTF-16 code unit, depending on
> which wins the popularity contest, and until we can tell we should
> refuse to deal with non-BMP characters.

Yes. Thanks for accurately summarizing my position.

See <http://erights.org/data/common-syntax/baking-chars.html#only_bmp>.


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