> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:13:16 +0100 > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <[email protected]> > > At present these are split into two and three grapheme clusters > respectively, and LibreOffice cursor movement responds accordingly. > (SIGN AA starts a grapheme cluster in several scripts of further > India.) However, if one teaches the Emacs editor what a Tai Tham > syllable is, so that it can use the M17n rendering library, the cursor > then advances syllable by syllable, which is unpleasant for imperfect > typists.
AFAIR, Emacs allows one to _delete_ individual characters, i.e. Backspace and C-d delete character-by-character, so the problem shouldn't be so grave for imperfect typists. Movement by grapheme cluster is AFAIK the most natural way of moving in complex scripts.
