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Bjoern Hoehrmann (2013-10-24T17:11:32.000Z)

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* Mathias Bynens wrote:
>Out of curiosity, is there any programming language that operates on 
>grapheme clusters (rather than code points) by default? FWIW, code point 
>iteration is what I’d expect in any language.

It is the specified default for Perl 6 that can be modified through
lexically scoped pragmas. I do not know the state of implementation.
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domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-10-26T03:25:31.225Z)

Mathias Bynens wrote:
> Out of curiosity, is there any programming language that operates on 
> grapheme clusters (rather than code points) by default? FWIW, code point 
> iteration is what I’d expect in any language.

It is the specified default for Perl 6 that can be modified through
lexically scoped pragmas. I do not know the state of implementation.

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