Unicode guide
This is a WIP page, take nothing here as final.
SUMMARY
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unicode handling across languages
perl unicode
- bytes
- characters
- utf-8
- utf-8b
- wtf-8
- splitting things by space?
- opaqueness
- locales
- nightmare windows APIs
- non-unicode
- bytes as strings kinda works better
- round trips
- perl
- c
- scheme
- languages
- formatting bytes/etc
- native format as utf-8? what?
- bytes -> maybe unicode -> unicode -> graphemes/text/etc
- code points
user-perceived character / grapheme cluster
- languages, rich data, paragraphs, etc
- scripts
- wchar
- unicode characters
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default
- normalization
- length
- upper
- lower
- CLDR
- runes
- rust char
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12450750/how-can-i-work-with-raw-bytes-in-perl