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		CaliforniaKarl on Sept 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: String Lengths in Unicode As far as I can tell, it looks like progress on getting this into the Python stdlib has stalled: https://bugs.python.org/issue30717 In the absence of support in the stdlib, is https://github.com/alvinlindstam/grapheme the best to use?

sciyoshi on Sept 9, 2019 [–]

I would highly recommend getting to know https://github.com/ovalhub/pyicu, which in addition to counting grapheme clusters with BreakIterator can also do things like normalisation, transliteration, and anything else you might need to do relating to Unicode.

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