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RGA.diff: Ivestigate what bad can happen when splitting multi-codepoint "characters" into codepoints #146

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cblp opened this issue Dec 2, 2019 · 0 comments
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RGA.diff: Ivestigate what bad can happen when splitting multi-codepoint "characters" into codepoints #146

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What bad can happen if we split é into e + ´?

See also 2-codepoint country flags.

For this, Unicode has a concept of “grapheme cluster”. There’s also “extended grapheme cluster” (EGC), which is basically an updated version of the concept.

http://unicode.org/glossary/#grapheme_cluster

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries
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