Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:37:37 +0100, Rhodri James wrote:

> (For the record, one of my grandmothers would have been baffled by this
> conversation, and the other one would have had definite opinions on
> whether accents were distinct characters or not, followed by a
> digression into whether "ŵ" and "ŷ" should be suppressed vigorously :-)


Can I ask what nationality your grandmother was, given that she had an 
opinion on the suppression of ŵ and ŷ.

And was she for it or against it?


-- 
Steve