Hi Zach,

Doesn't this add a lot of complexity? I really would like to understand the rationale/motivation for this level of generality, with some examples of code that is significantly improved by them.

For example, I am struggling to envisage a situation in which I'd find it useful to do sentence break iteration on a std::vector<byte> without any intermediate decoding step.

Best regards,

                 Peter

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Subject: Re: [SG16] Considerations for Unicode algorithms

Also, I think the algorithms should be generic. They should not work
only with char32_t, or only with int, etc. Users should be free to
use char8_t, char, unsigned char, etc., for UTF-8. std::byte if
you're nasty.