Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "spir" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> This article brought me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme.
Seems I
>> was partially wrong in stating that using "grapheme" to denote what we
>> commonly think as a character is an error. Possibly "grapheme" in
english
>> and "graph�me" in french are not quite synonym. For instance, "ph" is
>> commonly regarded as a single grapheme in french (<--> phoneme /f/
>> indeed), so that grapheme and chracter are not at all synonyms; while
>> according to en-wikipedia's article it may be 2 in english. What do you
>> think?
>
> No, a grapheme is the common notion of character:
That's my understanding too. I think the article spends too much time
comparing graphemes and phonemes. The former is about writing, the
latter is about speech.
Ali
