Everybody loves to debate what "character" means but nobody ever consults the standard. In the Unicode Standard a "character" is an abstract unit of textual dat

Everybody loves to debate what "character" means but nobody ever consults the standard. In the Unicode Standard a "character" is an abstract unit of textual data identified by a code point. The standard never refers to graphemes as "characters" but rather as user-perceived characters which the article omits.