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[Vincent Manis]

On 2009-08-25, at 10:36, John Cowan wrote:
> I assume you are talking about things like Spanish "ll" and Welsh  
> "ngh",
> which are considered single letters.  String iterators can be provided
> for all sorts of things, some locale-independent (codepoints, DGCs),
> others locale-dependent.

This got me thinking. I've never seen a programming language that  
completely subsumed *everything* in Unicode, including canonical  
forms, bidirectionality, and everything else. I think reading a  
specification for such a programming language would be highly  
entertaining; even string=? in such a language could provide many  
hours of innocent rainy-day fun.

I hope and expect that WG2 will NOT venture down this path, but  
perhaps the Perl or Ruby community could be prevailed to try it :)

-- v