"textels"

Eli Zaretskii eliz at gnu.org
Fri Sep 16 08:15:37 CDT 2016


> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:25:53 +0100 (BST)
> From: William_J_G Overington <wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com>
> 
> jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 15 2016 at 21:27 CEST, eliz at gnu.org writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> Isn't "grapheme cluster" the definition you are looking for?
> 
> > I don't think so.
> 
> Is an example of a textel that would definitely not be a grapheme cluster be when a character is expressed as a BASE CHARACTER character followed by one or more TAG CHARACTER characters.

Since no formal definition of a "textel" was presented, except via an
example, it's not clear to me whether what you propose can be a
textel.  (I also don't quite understand the semantics of a base
character followed by tag characters, to say the truth.)


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