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   Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 23:21:07 JST Niki Tonsky

   New post — all things Unicode!

   One of the most interesting researches I had to do. Enjoy!

   https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

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     Ivan Habunek (ihabunek@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 23:21:05 JST Ivan Habunek

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     @nikitonsky Elixir also gets this right. Even though my terminal renders an extra space after the emoji.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 23:24:37 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Ivan Habunek
     @ihabunek @nikitonsky And languages like Elixir are about the only ones that could get proper character counts in the standard library.
     
     Because you need to grab something like icu, which for system languages or core scripting languages (sh, perl, …) wouldn't be an option for their standard library (but definitely could for the extended standard library and I'd say should).
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     Ivan Habunek (ihabunek@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 03:11:34 JST Ivan Habunek

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     @nikitonsky Just had a look, and it just calls erlang.

     Erlang implementation is here:
     https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/0164d3db05739fc1fad67ac1f5bf3e2aea15cd45/lib/stdlib/src/string.erl#L147

     Erlang has a script which generates the unicode util code from the unicode spec. Macros would have been nice for that. :)
     https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/stdlib/uc_spec/gen_unicode_mod.escript

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 03:11:35 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Ivan Habunek

     @ihabunek nice! does it come from Erlang? Or this is Elixir specifically?