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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Unicode in strings
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 01:25:38 -0000 (UTC)
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According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>On Mon, 27 May 2024 15:16:13 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
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>> According to Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid>:
>>>On Wed, 22 May 2024 15:38:51 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know of any language (or even library) that supports the
>>>> notion of "character" for Unicode strings.  🙁
>>>
>>> Surely a “character” (or “grapheme” I think is (one of) the Unicode
>>> terms) is (represented by) a non-combining code point combined with all
>>> the immediately-following combining code points.
>> 
>> Take another look at the table I referred to yesterday. When you have
>> ZWJ the rules of what combines with what gets awfully complicated.
>
>ZWJ is classed as “punctuation”, and has no combining class. So it forms a 
>“character” or “grapheme” it its own right.

Really, you need to look at that combined emoji table I told you about yesterday.



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