"textels"

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Tue, Sep 20 2016 at 18:09 CEST, doug at ewellic.org writes:
> Janusz Bień wrote:
>
>> For me it means that Swift's characters are equivalence classes of the
>> set of extended grapheme clusters by canonical equivalence relation.
>
> I still hope we can come to some conclusion on the correct Unicode name
> for this concept. I don't think non-Unicode interpretations of terms
> like "grapheme" are grounds for throwing out "grapheme cluster,"

I agree.

> but I can see that the equivalence class itself is lacking a name.

I'glad.

>
> Note that the Swift definition doesn't say that <00E9> and <0065 0301>
> are identical entities, only that the language compares them as equal.

I'm fully aware of this.

Best regards

Janusz

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Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
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