Do 'Grapheme_Extend' characters only apply to 'Grapheme_Base'?

[Doug Ewell]

Mathias Bynens <mathias at qiwi dot be> wrote:

> Let's say I'm writing a program that strips combining characters and
> grapheme extenders from an input string.
>
> For combining marks, I'm looking for any non-combining marks (e.g.
> 'a') followed by one or more combining marks (e.g. ' ̃'), and then I
> remove everything but the non-combining mark (e.g. leaving only 'a').
> Is this a correct approach?

It's entirely up to you. This is a rather unusual thing to want to do
with text. Fr mn lnggs, t wld b qvlnt t strppng ll vwls t f th txt.

--
Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA
http://ewellic.org | @DougEwell