19 Jan
2009
19 Jan
'09
3:19 p.m.
Bryan Jurish wrote:
moin all,
well, without wanting to be trite, I have to say that think that "data transmission" and "linguistic processing" are pretty much synonymous.
Pretty much but linguistic processing is happening at a higher level than data transmission, and the 'character' used in language may be represented by more than one data transmission 'character'. With ASCII and its 8-bit relatives it's almost the same because the two kinds of character are the same, but unicode uses more than one data character per linguistic character. That's why I think there needs to be a distinction between the two types of 'string', and maybe two levels of objects to deal with them, like [unicode2byte]. Martin