Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote: >>> And what, I find myself wondering, does "nearly infinite" mean? >> >> It means "finite". > > Except in the original context it should have meant "infinite", as > there is actually an infinite number of potential default grapheme > clusters.
How can that be, if there is a finite number of characters that can be part of a cluster, and a (presumably) finite upper bound on the number of characters in a cluster? -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/