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> Runes correspond to code points in Go, which are between 1 and 4 bytes long.

That's the dumbest thing I've read in this month. Why did they use the wrong word, sowing confusion¹, when any other programming language and the Unicode standard uses the correct expression "code point"?

¹ https://codepoints.net/runic already exists



> uses the correct expression "code point"

Actually no, these are Unicode scalars, not code points; they exclude the surrogate category.

I agree that rune is a very poor name for it. It both mistakes what runes actually are and clashes with the runic block. But C# has adopted the Rune name for some reason.

Rust simply calls these char, and OCaml uchar (unicode char), which are much better choices.


My bad, I just double-checked and Go did the dumb thing again: They are indeed representing full code points rather than scalars like everyone else.


Thank you for striving to be correct and taking the time for the investigation.


Seeing as two of the authors designed utf8 (or at least concurrent to others), I think it’s safe to defer to their expertise and nomenclature here.


http://enwp.org/Appeal_to_accomplishment

Your use of the fallacy falls short of the reasoning standard expected here on HN. I did not downvote you, because I'd rather engage with words and effect change, but it does not surprise me that someone else did.




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