[swift-evolution] Pitch: Renaming CharacterSet to UnicodeScalarSet

Erica Sadun erica at ericasadun.com
Wed Sep 28 18:06:25 CDT 2016


On Sep 28, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this really correct? Character and UnicodeScalar are not synonyms. The Character type represents a character made up of one or more Unicode scalars (i.e. an extended grapheme cluster). Is a CharacterSet a set of Unicode-compliant characters that happens to be restricted to those characters each made up of only a single Unicode scalar, or is it meant to be a set of Unicode scalars? My read of the Foundation documentation is that it is the former.

http://i.imgur.com/h6W5kYc.jpg <http://i.imgur.com/h6W5kYc.jpg>

http://i.imgur.com/q50PSld.jpg <http://i.imgur.com/q50PSld.jpg>

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