Counting Devanagari Aksharas

[Richard Wordingham via Unicode]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:39:42 +0100 (BST)
Julian Bradfield via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> On 2017-04-22, Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> > I could imagine Emacs decomposing characters temporarily when only
> > part of a cluster matches the search string.  Assuming this would
> > make sense to users of some complex scripts, that is.  You are
> > welcome to suggest such a feature by using report-emacs-bug.  

The cursor moves to the cluster boundary, so there is much less of a
problem with Emacs.

> That's what I do in my emacs with combining characters, and if I had
> complex script support, I'd expect the same to happen there.
> emacs is a programmer's editor, after all :)

Emacs probably has a way of toggling complex script support somewhere.
I'm torn between seeing the text properly set out and seeing exactly
what it is that I've typed.  'Reveal codes' doesn't seem widely
supported.

Richard.