Janusz S. Bien <[email protected]>: > > From the Unicode glossary: > >> Grapheme. (1) A minimally distinctive unit of writing in the context of a >> particular writing system.[...] (2) What a user thinks of as a character. > >> User-Perceived Character. What everyone thinks of as a character in their >> script. > > […] the definitions are language/locale dependent.
A writing system is (usually) language-dependent, a script is not, although some scripts have been used exclusively (or prominently) in a single writing system with a single language. So definition (1) of ‘grapheme’ would be appropriate for linguistics, (2) maybe for typography and computer science, but it’Í extremely vague.
