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You mean grapheme clusters? Swift is the only language I know that uses that by default, and you still wouldn't want to store strings as a list of grapheme clus

• deleted 9y ago
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• cannam 9y ago
  I believe Perl 6 does so as well, see e.g. https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-perl-6-and-you/ https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-p...
• jswny 9y ago
  Elixir as well.
• e12e 9y ago
  The apple dev documentation has a nice overview of some of the concerns that need to be taken into account for this to work: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Strings/Articles/stringsClusters.html https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Co... It's probably one of the better approaches - but it's still not clear if it (alone) allows a developer that speaks only English to develop a text indexing or editing system that works well across English, Japanese, Arabic, Hangul and Dutch for example.