> You cannot even
> meaningfully move by single characters in most clusters, because
> composing characters generally completely changes how the original
> characters looked, so there's nowhere you can display the cursor.
Yes, and this is one of the reasons it feels broken in devanagari, you
get
> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:51:59 +0100
> Cc: Julian Bradfield
> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
>
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:39:42 +0100 (BST)
> Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
>
> > On 2017-04-22, Eli Zaretskii via
On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:39:42 +0100 (BST)
Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
> On 2017-04-22, Eli Zaretskii via Unicode wrote:
> > I could imagine Emacs decomposing characters temporarily when only
> > part of a cluster matches the search string.
On 2017-04-22, Eli Zaretskii via Unicode wrote:
>> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
[...]
>> I've encountered the problem that, while at least I can search for
>> text smaller than a cluster, there's no indication in the window of
>> where in the
> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 17:13:36 +0100
> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
>
> > Movement by grapheme
> > cluster is AFAIK the most natural way of moving in complex scripts.
>
> Evidence?
Personal experience?
> It's easiest for displaying the cursor.
It's the _only_
On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:34:32 +0300
Eli Zaretskii via Unicode wrote:
> AFAIR, Emacs allows one to _delete_ individual characters,
> i.e. Backspace and C-d delete character-by-character, so the problem
> shouldn't be so grave for imperfect typists.
Deleting forwards by one
> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:13:16 +0100
> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode
>
> At present these are split into two and three grapheme clusters
> respectively, and LibreOffice cursor movement responds accordingly.
> (SIGN AA starts a grapheme cluster in several scripts of
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:27:43 -0700
Manish Goregaokar via Unicode wrote:
> > Do Hindi speakers really think of orthographic syllables as
> > characters?
>
> When rendered as a cluster, yes? I've asked around, and folks seem to
> insist on coupling it to the rendering.
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