Re: [RFC] grapheme cluster for str_split, grapheme_str_split function
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:54:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] grapheme cluster for str_split, grapheme_str_split function | ||
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On 27 March 2024 23:18:21 GMT, "Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]" <imsop.php@rwec.co.uk> wrote:
>On 26/03/2024 21:14, Casper Langemeijer wrote:
>> If you need someone to help for the grapheme_ marketing team, let me know.
>
>I think a big part of the problem is that very few people dig into the complexities of text
>encoding, and so don't know that a "grapheme" is what they're looking for.
>
>Unicode documentation is, generally, very careful with its terminology - distinguishing between
>"code points", "code units" "graphemes" , "grapheme
>clusters", "glyphs", etc. Pretty much everyone else just says "character",
>and assumes that everyone knows what they mean.
That's why I have been working on <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_text_processing>
Takes all the (or most) terminology out of it.
It's time to resurrect it.
cheers
Derick