[swift-users] CharacterSet vs Set<Character>

[Jean-Denis Muys]

You are right: I don’t know much about asian languages.

How would you go about counting consonants, vowels (and tone-marks?) in the most general way?

I think I would need to educate myself about those things. Any pointer welcome.

JD


> On 3 Oct 2016, at 12:52, Gerriet M. Denkmann <g at mdenkmann.de> wrote:
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>> On 3 Oct 2016, at 16:28, Jean-Denis Muys via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
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>> ASCII? Probably not. Latin? perhaps, though not obvious. For example French accented letters would probably have to be handled somehow. Greek or Cyrillic? Perhaps. Other scripts? Unlikely, but what do I know.
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> Don’t be so Europe-centric. Other people have vowels too.
> Thai for example. And here are Swift characters completely useless: กี้ is one character (for Swift) but it is really one consonant + one vowel + one tone-mark.
> So you will have to use unicodeScalars.
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> Have fun!
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> Gerriet.
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