> From: [email protected] (Janusz S. Bień) > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:12:53 +0200 > Cc: mufi-fonts <[email protected]> > > On Thu, Sep 15 2016 at 16:36 CEST, [email protected] writes: > > [...] > > > In the new Swift programming language, which is white-hot in the Apple > > community, Apple is moving toward a model of a transparent, generic > > Unicode that can be “viewed” as UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32 if necessary, > > but in which a “character” contains however many code points it needs > > (“e” with a stacked macron, acute accent, and dieresis is > > algorithmically one “character” in Swift). Moreover, > > e-with-an-acute-accent and e followed by a combining acute accent, for > > example, compare as equal. At present, the underlying code is still > > UTF-16LE. > > For several years I use the name "textel" (text element, in Polish > "tekstel") for such objects. I do it mostly orally in my presentations > for my students, but I used it also in writing e.g. in > http://bc.klf.uw.edu.pl/118/, unfortunately without a proper > definition.
Isn't "grapheme cluster" the definition you are looking for?
