> The byte size allowed would need to be about 100x the length limit. That’s… kind of a lot?
Would it need to be, though? ~10x ought to be enough for any realistic string that wasn't especially crafted to be annoying.
Would it need to be, though? ~10x ought to be enough for any realistic string that wasn't especially crafted to be annoying.
What's the concrete spec for the limit if you've only got 10x storage per grapheme cluster?
Probably you end providing the limit in bytes. That's fine, but it's no longer the "hybrid counting" thing anymore.
I’m not so confident about Hindi, though 25% seems very low if we’re talking frequency; but in Telugu writing it’s definitely a lot more than that that specify a vowel sign and thus take at least two Unicode scalar values to represent a syllable.
My feeling (as a white fellow moved to India, with well above average knowledge of Indian languages and Unicode for a place like HN, but not yet fluent in any Indian language) is that some four-bytes-per-code-point script might conceivably get realistic existing texts above an average of 10 bytes per syllable for at least twenty syllables, and that most Indic languages could sustain it indefinitely in specific deliberate styles of writing.