Thomas Munro wrote: > Looking around a bit, it might be interesting to check if the > icu_character_boundaries() function in Daniel Vérité's icu_ext treats > IVSs as single grapheme clusters.
It does. with strings(s) as ( values (U&'\+0066FE' || U&'\+0E0103'), (U&'\+00304B' || U&'\+00309A') ) select s, octet_length(s), char_length(s), (select count(*) from icu_character_boundaries(s,'en')) as graphemes from strings; s | octet_length | char_length | graphemes -----+--------------+-------------+----------- 曾󠄃 | 7 | 2 | 1 か゚ | 6 | 2 | 1 Best regards, -- Daniel Vérité https://postgresql.verite.pro/ Twitter: @DanielVerite