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in the early 70's my father bought a brand new car for exactly $2500. (even had the optional AM radio!!)
being a salesman he clocked it in just over 2 years and traded to the new model.
about 15 years later he said he saw it on a used car lot for $2500.
yeah he had a good memory for the plate numbers, had a lot of cars, could recall every one
also had exactly 1 mobile phone, with a phone number he never remembered,
... then again that made sense: only ever had it's battery charged up exactly once 
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Sweet!!!. I still own some stock
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Let me know when you've got the beer and the barbie ready.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So .NET uses 16bit unicode by default, and with the territory comes the possibility of 32 bit codes embedded as surrogate pairs.
That's all well and good even if it complicates things.
However, .NET provides no functions for operating on those 32-bit values.
No char.IsWhiteSpace(). No GetUnicodeCategory(), nada.
So what the hell are you supposed to do with these values?
*angery*
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Okay yes, but once i have that converted (either to a 32bit int, or a double-char string, i can't do anything with it.
I can't call char.IsWhiteSpace with it.
I can't do anything but print its value. Which is stupid
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ASCII FTW! 127 characters should be enough for anyone! 
I'm not sure there are any whitespace characters that would be encoded as a surrogate pair:
Whitespace character - Wikipedia[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And EBCDIC - everybody always forgets EBCDIC 
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And sixbit on DEC's PDP systems!
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I've encountered a weird one. But I don't remember if it was a surrogate or not. I just remember it didn't print to the console properly (it cooked it) or didn't save to source as a literal value or something.
It came up as whitespace, but only when I used these huge "not ranges" which are like [^a-z] (anything but a lower case letter)
that "anything" part created ranges all throughout the 16-bit unicode spectrum.
And that's when I ran into issues with one whitespace character.
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Actually Baudot it sufficient at 5 bits.
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Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Only works for 16 bit unicode values. Not these 32bit surrogates
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"So what the hell are you supposed to do with these values"
hope they never appear.
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Pretty much! 
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idea: research using Unicode categories in your RegEx ? [^]
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I am using those.
The category for surrogates is surrogate. Not helpful.
Combining a hi and lo surrogate you get a 2 char string.
The 2 char string cannot be queried for its unicode category in .NET AFAIK
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honey the codewitch wrote: The 2 char string cannot be queried for its unicode category in .NET AFAIK
It is a mess, but, check this against what you expect, now:
public void PrintUniCodeRange(int sc, int ec)
{
bool isKey;
string key = "";
for (int i = sc; i <= ec; i++)
{
string ucString = char.ConvertFromUtf32(i);
isKey = i < 256;
if (isKey) key = ((Keys)Enum.Parse(typeof(Keys), i.ToString())).ToString();
UnicodeCategory cat = Char.GetUnicodeCategory(ucString, 0);
if (cat != UnicodeCategory.OtherNotAssigned)
{
Console.WriteLine($"#{i} | Unicode Category: {cat} {(isKey ? "! Keys Enum: " + key : "")}");
}
}
}Calling the above with 8192 to 8233 parameters:
#8192 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8193 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8194 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8195 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8196 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8197 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8198 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8199 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8200 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8201 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8202 | Unicode Category: SpaceSeparator
#8203 | Unicode Category: Format
#8204 | Unicode Category: Format
#8205 | Unicode Category: Format
#8206 | Unicode Category: Format
#8207 | Unicode Category: Format
#8208 | Unicode Category: DashPunctuation
#8209 | Unicode Category: DashPunctuation
#8210 | Unicode Category: DashPunctuation
#8211 | Unicode Category: DashPunctuation
#8212 | Unicode Category: DashPunctuation
#8213 | Unicode Category: DashPunctuation
#8214 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8215 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8216 | Unicode Category: InitialQuotePunctuation
#8217 | Unicode Category: FinalQuotePunctuation
#8218 | Unicode Category: OpenPunctuation
#8219 | Unicode Category: InitialQuotePunctuation
#8220 | Unicode Category: InitialQuotePunctuation
#8221 | Unicode Category: FinalQuotePunctuation
#8222 | Unicode Category: OpenPunctuation
#8223 | Unicode Category: InitialQuotePunctuation
#8224 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8225 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8226 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8227 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8228 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8229 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8230 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8231 | Unicode Category: OtherPunctuation
#8232 | Unicode Category: LineSeparator
#8233 | Unicode Category: ParagraphSeparator
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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hmm, I wonder what my test was doing wrong, because GetUnicodeCategory(string, int) was returning only single char values for me i thought. maybe i had a bug
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Thank you! Turns out there was a bug in my code where i wasn't passing doublechar strings in. They ended up single char.
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What would we call it then? Here are Some suggestions[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Some funny ones there
Yet it annoyed me (a lot more than it should have) that France and Poland didn't adhere to the use of the country's name! 
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Why would France do it lie anyone else?
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Telling that there wasn't one for Germany. DoneMark is very close to how it's actually pronounced natively (in Norwegian and Swedish, at any rate; Danish has been referred to as a throat disease rather than a language).
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