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Re^9: How to reverse a (Unicode) string

by JavaFan (Canon)
on Jan 10, 2011 at 16:48 UTC ( [id://881509]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^8: How to reverse a (Unicode) string
in thread How to reverse a (Unicode) string

No, you don't have to with US-ASCII and iso-8859-1.
Sure you do. It's not a difficult encoding, but it still is an encoding.
Unicode is a character set, not an encoding, so that sentence is broken.
Wait. You are saying that a sentence of the form "X is an encoding of Y" is broken in English is Y isn't an encoding?

I guess that "UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode" is equally broken. For the reason that Unicode isn't an encoding in that sentence either.

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Re^10: How to reverse a (Unicode) string
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2011 at 00:07 UTC

    Sure you do

    Why do you keep insisting there's a need to apply an identity function? Or are you saying decoding ASCII isn't an identity function? It's hard to tell since you're nay-saying without any explanation.

    You are saying that a sentence of the form "X is an encoding of Y" is broken in English [if] Y isn't an encoding?

    I seem to have misread what you said. (Perhaps I missed the "of"?) Striken.

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