Re: Unicode implementation concept

Come on guys, be civil.  I have worked in the
software world for decades and don't deserve
the flak.

If character indexing is considered unimportant,
the idea has no merit.

That opinion is misguided insofar as semantic
meaning arises only at the character abstraction
level.  It seems a major bone of contention
in your circle, for mysterious reasons that
I cannot fathom.  Character based indexing is
very, very much "normal software development."
If we disagree on its importance, so be it.

Serialization is the only *serious* drawback.
The miscellany overhead is no worse than
the endless special-casing and string-scanning
currently required by a serial format.

Be constructive now: suggest some test data
that will provide a performance/complexity testbench.
It's time to implement.  All I need is test data.
Does ICU offer any?  Where else might I look?

Since you are so antagonistic towards this
simple and elegant concept, why not dream up
the worst-case stress-test scenarios you
can imagine?  I would be eager to run them.

Thanks-
Mark