On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:13 PM, mathew davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I need to break a string down into individual characters. > > In English that's pretty easy. > > But in some languages what a user perceives as a single block is actually a > base character plus accents plus vowel markers plus tone markers plus...
First, define what you mean by "character", because it's not at all obvious. In Unicode terms, dividing a string into characters is easy. The characterAtIndex: call will give you that. However as you're discovering, individual unicode characters are not particularly useful. You may be after composed character sequences, as you mentioned. You may be after glyphs, which are individual displayable units, but note that glyphs can often be larger than you might expect and can depend on the font being used. You may be after something else altogether. Figure out exactly what you desire, and why you desire it, and then tell us and we might be able to figure out how you can get it. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
