Re: (fully qualified) names of basic types

Kevin Reid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mar 19, 2009, at 22:54, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:

>> Char or Character?
>
> Does that represent a Unicode character, or a code unit?


If you ask me, it represents a Unicode scalar value.

If you ask MarkM, it's either that or a UTF-16 code unit, depending on  
which wins the popularity contest, and until we can tell we should  
refuse to deal with non-BMP characters.

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>
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