On Friday, July 14, 2017 at 2:40:43 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > [...] > What is the length of a string? How often do you actually > care about the number of grapheme clusters - and not, for > example, about the pixel width? (To columnate text, for > instance, you need to know about its width in pixels or > millimeters, not the number of characters in the line.)
Not in the case of a fixed width font! > And if you're going to group code points together because > some of them are combining characters, would you also group > them together because there's a zero-width joiner in the > middle? The answer will sometimes be "yes of course" and > sometimes "of course not". Consistency is the key. And we must remember that he who assembled such inconsistent strings can only blame herself. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
