Re: substring()

["Chuck White" <chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Kay wrote:

>We had this conversation a few weeks ago (regarding length()). As I learnt
>then, it's all due to the appalling decision to allow non-spacing
>diactricals in Unicode, which makes it quite hard to define what you mean by
>"the first character" in a string.
 
A stupid question, perhaps, but what's a diactrical? I looked it up in a
couple of online computer-term dictionaries, but couldn't find it.  Thanks

-chuck white


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