[issue12729] Python lib re cannot handle Unicode properly due to narrow/wide bug
Terry J. Reedy
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Aug 27 22:23:39 CEST 2011
Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:
Python makes it easy to transform a sequence with a generator as long as no look-ahead is needed. utf16.UTF16.__iter__ is a typical example. Whenever a surrogate is found, grab the matching one.
However, grapheme clustering does require look-ahead, which is a bit trickier. Assume s is a sanitized sequence of code points with unicode database entries. Ignoring line endings the following should work (I tested it with a toy definition of mark()):
def graphemes(s):
sit = iter(s)
try: graph = [next(sit)]
except StopIteration: graph = []
for cp in sit:
if mark(cp):
graph.append(cp)
else:
yield combine(graph)
graph = [cp]
yield combine(graph)
I tested this with several input with
def mark(cp): return cp == '.'
def combine(l) return ''.join(l)
Python's object orientation makes formatting easy for the user. Assume someone does the hard work of writing (once ;-) a GCString class with a .__format__ method that interprets the format mini-language for graphemes, using a generalized version of your 'simply horrible' code. The might be done by adapting str.__format__ to use the grapheme iterator above. Then users should be able to write
>>> '{:6.6}'.format(GCString("a̠ˈne̞ɣ̞ð̞o̞t̪a̠"))
"a̠ˈne̞ɣ̞ð̞"
(Note: Thunderbird properly displays characters with the marks beneath even though FireFox does not do so above or in its display of your message.)
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