Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond

On Sun, 12 May 2024 07:34:35 -0000 (UTC)
Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> schrieb:

The point I wanted to make is that there is the frequent
misconception that dealing with individual arbitrary characters is
something that is relatively common, and that one can do that by
using UTF-32 (or UTF-16); it isn't, and one cannot. 

 
Do you really mean one cannot change an individual character
using UTF-32?  I assume you mean "there is no need to do it"..
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I would think that Anton meant to say that UCS-4/UTF-32 code point is
not the same as individual character.