grapheme cluster library

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:11:02 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:

> Is there a recommended library for manipulating grapheme clusters?

Back in July, I asked for anyone interested in grapheme clusters to 
consider checking out this issue on the bug tracker:

http://bugs.python.org/issue30717

My post received at least 170 replies from at least 16 unique people 
(including you, Rustom). As far as I can see, only two of those people 
actually registered on the tracker to follow that ticket.

>From time to time, there are repeated complaints that the Python standard 
library doesn't handle graphemes. Are those complaints mostly hot air, or 
is there actually community interest in having the stdlib deal with this?

If there is community interest, the best ways to register that interest 
are, in order (best to worst):

- step up and provide some code;

- make a concrete proposal (not just "support graphemes") on the 
  Python-Ideas mailing list;

- register a feature request on the tracker;

- complain about the lack of such support here;

- do nothing.



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Steven D'Aprano