Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 03:07:20 EDT 2017


On Monday, July 17, 2017 at 9:41:51 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:

> On a more serious note every other post on this (as on many discussing unicode
> more broadly) is so ridiculously Euro (or Anglo) centric I would not know where
> to begin.
> Witness your own…

<snip>

> Hint1: Ask your grandmother whether unicode's notion of character makes sense. 
> Ask 10 gmas from 10 language-L's
> Hint2: When in doubt gma usually is right

To be fair I notice now your subject line "aka real characters"

Which suggests that you understand that the gma view may have more validity
than the ½-assed ones (currently) supported by python/unicode



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