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POString class based on graphemes?
 

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    <p>I'm wondering why we don't have some string classes that represent a string of Unicode grapheme clusters instead of code points or characters. It seems to me that in most applications it would be easier for programmers to access components of a grapheme when necessary than to have to organize them from code points, which appears necessary even if only to avoid casually breaking a string in "mid-grapheme" (at least in theory). Internally a string class might use a variable length encoding such as UTF-8, UTF-16, or in this context even UTF-32 is variable length; or implement subclasses for all of them (and optionally configure the choice at run-time so that different languages could use their optimal encodings). But if programmers could "see" grapheme units when inspecting a string, wouldn't string handling code in general be closer to achieving correctness, and without much extra complexity?</p> <p>References:<br> <a href="http://unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html#7" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Characters and Combining Marks</a><br> <a href="http://useless-factor.blogspot.com/2007/08/unicode-implementers-guide-part-4.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Unicode implementer's guide part 4: grapheme breaking</a><br> <a href="http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4c/classUnicodeString.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">UnicodeString Class Reference</a><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2056866/enumerating-a-string-by-grapheme-instead-of-character">Enumerating a string by grapheme instead of character</a><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3950588/strings-and-character-encoding-in-c">Strings and character encoding in C++</a> </p>
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    1. COBecause you haven't written it?
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    2. COI wonder if this is the kind of question that would be better placed on http://programmers.stackexchange.com/
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    3. CO@John, nassar: I think John's suggestion is a good one for this question
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