Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

[Gregory Ewing]

Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> I don't think that it is even a given that "atomic units of language" exist. To
> quote a Hindi speaker earlier in this thread, की is a letter, and yet it can be
> decomposed into की = क + ई, so it isn't "atomic". If letters aren't atomic,
> then what are?

They're like subatomic particles! All equally fundamental,
but they can turn into each other.

-- 
Greg