Thanks. Though I understand what is happening, I wondered if Go includes ways to handle such text at the grapheme level? I only see libraries aimed at the code point level.
On Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:59:30 UTC+1, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: > > Here it is without the combining character: > https://play.golang.org/p/1bgIkIbFei > > Ranging over a string iterates the code points within. For...range is > unaware of combining characters; they are a higher-level concept. > > The package described at https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm > might be of interest. > > -rob > > > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Egon <egon...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wednesday, 6 July 2016 17:31:06 UTC+3, gary.wi...@victoriaplumb.com >> wrote: >>> >>> I have a little snippet here which iterates over a string. >>> >>> package main >>> >>> import "fmt" >>> >>> func main() { >>> >>> text := "Noël" >>> >>> for _, rune_ := range text { >>> fmt.Printf("%#U\n", rune_) >>> } >>> } >>> >>> Playground: https://play.golang.org/p/bVfXB2crKo >>> >>> The output is not correct because it breaks the 'e' from the diaeresis ' >>> *¨*'. >>> >>> Without normalisation (because it doesn't work with all code points), is >>> there any way of iterating over this string by grapheme to output each as a >>> fully formed readable character? >>> >> >> I'm not an expert in this area, but combing characters belong to mark >> category: https://play.golang.org/p/2X8xc9sijY >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
