On Sunday, 29 May 2016 at 12:08:52 UTC, default0 wrote:
I am pretty sure that a single grapheme in unicode does not correspond to your notion of "character". I am pretty sure that what you think of as a "character" is officially called "Grapheme Cluster" not "Grapheme".
Grapheme is a linguistic term. AFAIUI, a grapheme cluster is a cluster of codepoints representing a grapheme. It's called "cluster" in the unicode spec, because there there is no dedicated grapheme unit.
I put "character" into quotes, because the term is not really well defined. I just used it for a short and pregnant answer. I'm sure there's a better/more correct definition of graphem/phoneme, but it's probably also much longer and complicated.
