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janet-utf8 reviews and mentions
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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023
Regarding UTF-8 encoding:
“And a couple of important consequences:
- You CAN’T determine the length of the string by counting bytes.
- You CAN’T randomly jump into the middle of the string and start reading.
- You CAN’T get a substring by cutting at arbitrary byte offsets. You might cut off part of the character.”
One of the things I had to get used to when learning the programming language Janet is that strings are just plain byte sequences, unaware of any encoding. So when I call `length` on a string of one character that is represented by 2 bytes in UTF-8 (e.g. `ä`), the function returns 2 instead of 1. Similar issues occur when trying to take a substring, as mentioned by the author.
As much as I love the approach Janet took here (it feels clean and simple and works well with their built-in PEGs), it is a bit annoying to work with outside of the ASCII range. Fortunately, there are libraries that can deal with this issue (e.g. https://github.com/andrewchambers/janet-utf8), but I wish they would support conversion to/from UTF-8 out of the box, since I generally like Janet very much.
One interesting thing I learned from the article is that the first byte can always be determined from its prefix. I always wondered how you would recognize/separate a unicode character in a Janet string since it may have 1-4 bytes length, but I guess this is the answer.
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andrewchambers/janet-utf8 is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of janet-utf8 is C.
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