Accented Characters and Counting Syllables

["Nordlöw" via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 6 December 2014 at 23:11:49 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> This is a Unicode issue. What you want is neither byCodeUnit nor
> byCodePoint, but byGrapheme. A grapheme is the Unicode 
> equivalent of
> what lay people would call a "character". A Unicode character 
> (or more
> precisely, a "code point") is not necessarily a complete 
> grapheme, as
> your example above shows; it's just a numerical value that 
> uniquely
> identifies an entry in the Unicode character database.
>
>
> T

Ok, thanks.

I just noticed that byGrapheme() lacks bidirectional access. 
Further it also lacks graphemeStrideBack() in complement to 
graphemeStride()? Similar to stride() and strideBack(). Is this 
difficult to implement?