From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 06:54:27 CDT
In <87els1twkk.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>Unicode says that 'grapheme' really means 'what a user thinks of as a
>character'. In contrast, 'glyph' is the rendered version of a
>character or character combination, I think.
No, Unicode defines 'grapheme' explicitly, in two different ways, only one
of which is what we are after.
But I know of no formal definition of 'glyph' anywhere. That might be
reagrded as a help or as a hindrance, according to your POV :-( .
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