GNU bug report logs - #51292
27.2; Reversing strings with unicode combining characters

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:17:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 27.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #33 received at 51292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: hmelman <at> gmail.com, 51292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51292: 27.2;
 Reversing strings with unicode combining characters
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 14:50:56 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 22:50:15 +0200
> Cc: 51292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> But it might make sense to add function to tokenize a string into
> grapheme clusters -- I can see that being useful.  Then the caller can
> chop and reverse the list of clusters as they wish.

We have find-composition; isn't that sufficient?  Especially since we
don't really understand the use case?
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