<div dir="auto">Cool! </div><div dir="auto">Looks like the approach there is to not have a character type, but treat code points as just tiny strings which can be mapped to integers?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I kind have this fuzzy idea Haskell and a lot of other languages use the extended ascii character set in a sortah punned way that conflates binary and textual data.  And that’s ignoring how most western / native English software folks naively treat  chars as graphemes / atomic units of rendering, when this falls apart when engineering for internationally friendly software.  </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 3:43 AM Hécate <<a href="mailto:hecate@glitchbra.in">hecate@glitchbra.in</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>Carter, you might want to take a look at Elixir's standard
      library, which (in my experience) has a good position when it
      comes to graphemes <a href="https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/String.html" target="_blank">https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/String.html</a><br>
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    <div>Le 27/06/2021 à 15:58, Carter Schonwald
      a écrit :<br>
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      <div dir="auto">More deeply, it doesn’t suffice to guarantee
        you’re gonna have a well formed unicode sequence! </div>
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      <div dir="auto">It’d need to be grapheme -> text -> text
         right?</div>
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      <div dir="auto">I’ve def wanted to dig into how to make
        programming more grapheme oriented for text at some point.  I
        think swift explcitly does this in their standard libraries ?</div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:37
            AM Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <<a href="mailto:ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com</a>>
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              <div dir="ltr">On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 12:44, Andreas Abel
                <<a href="mailto:andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de" target="_blank">andreas.abel@ifi.lmu.de</a>>
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                  `intersperse :: Char -> Text -> Text`<br>
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                  Yeah, that looks silly indeed.  Should be pruned or
                  marked as spam.<br>
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                <div>"Spam" is a bit harsh.  And it does indeed have
                  some use (albeit primarily with test suites and quite
                  possibly more efficient ways to do the required task
                  anyway): <a href="https://github.com/search?l=Haskell&q=Text.intersperse&type=Code" target="_blank">https://github.com/search?l=Haskell&q=Text.intersperse&type=Code</a>
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                  On 2021-06-27 01:33, Andrew Lelechenko wrote:<br>
                  > I know applications for `intercalate :: Text
                  -> [Text] -> Text`: `unwords`, `unlines`, etc.
                  But what is `intersperse :: Char -> Text ->
                  Text` good for? Am I correct assuming that its sole
                  merit is to mimic `Data.List` API? Note that
                  `Data.List.intersperse` is polymorphic and is
                  exceedingly rarely used for `Char -> String ->
                  String`.<br>
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                  > Best regards,<br>
                  > Andrew<br>
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              <div dir="ltr">Ivan Lazar Miljenovic<br>
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