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bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters
From: |
Howard Melman |
Subject: |
bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 17:21:36 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (darwin) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Emacs has string-reverse, obsolete since 25.1. Perhaps we should
>> reintroduce it and use the definition from s?
>
> Or... well, that might break some people's code, so let's not do that.
>
> And I'm not quite sure that such a function really makes sense. How
> often do you reverse a string for display purposes,
> anyway?
FWIW, I'm not invested in the outcome. I haven't had a need
to do this but found the behavior curious.
> But it might make sense to add function to tokenize a string into
> grapheme clusters -- I can see that being useful. Then the caller can
> chop and reverse the list of clusters as they wish.
>
> `string-tokenize-graphemes'?
I agree that seems potentially useful.
--
Howard
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Howard Melman, 2021/10/19
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/19
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/19
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/19
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/20
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/20
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/10/20
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Stefan Kangas, 2021/10/20
- bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/20
bug#51292: 27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/10/20