Whether or not it is well suited, that's probably water under the bridge at this point. Think of it as a jargon at this point; after all, there are lots of cases like that: a "near miss" wasn't nearly a miss, it was nearly a hit.
Mark On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 10:56 AM Janusz S. Bień <jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08 2018 at 18:36 +0200, Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode wrote: > > I recently did some extensive revisions of a paper on Unicode string > models (APIs). Comments are welcome. > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wuzzMOvKOJw93SWZAqoim1VUl9mloUxE0W6Ki_G23tw/edit# > > It's a good opportunity to propose a better term for "extended grapheme > cluster", which usually are neither extended nor clusters, it's also not > obvious that they are always graphemes. > > Cf.the earlier threads > > https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2017-m03/0031.html > https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2016-m09/0040.html > > Best regards > > Janusz > > -- > , > Janusz S. Bien > emeryt (emeritus) > https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien >