[swift-evolution] [Proposal] Normalize Unicode Identifiers

[Karl]

No the proposal seems to be about unicode characters in Swift source code:

To ease lexing/parsing and avoid user confusion, the names of custom identifiers (type names, variable names, etc.) and operators in Swift can be composed of (mostly) separate sets of characters.

In that sense, it sounds more like a source-breaking bugfix to me.

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 01:19, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> You mean values of type String? I would want those to be exactly what I say they are; NFC normalization is available, if I recall, as part of Foundation, but by no means should my String values be silently changed!
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Michael Gottesman <mgottesman at apple.com <mailto:mgottesman at apple.com>> wrote:
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> > On Sep 22, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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> >> On Jul 26, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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> >> +1. Even if it's too late for Swift 3, though, I'd argue that it's highly unlikely to be code-breaking in practice. Any existing code that would get tripped up by this normalization is arguably broken already.
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> > I'm inclined to agree. To be paranoid about perfect compatibility, we could conceivably allow existing code with differently-normalized identifiers with a warning based on Swift version, but it's probably not worth it. It'd be interesting to data-mine Github or the iOS Swift Playgrounds app and see if this breaks any Swift 3 code in practice.
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> As an additional interesting point here, we could in general normalize unicode strings. This could potentially reduce the size of unicode characters or allow us to constant propagate certain unicode algorithms in the optimizer.
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> > -Joe
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