Precomposed Character & Grapheme on wikipedia

[Ali Çehreli]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
 > "spir" <denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote in message

 >> This article brought me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme. 
Seems I
 >> was partially wrong in stating that using "grapheme" to denote what we
 >> commonly think as a character is an error. Possibly "grapheme" in 
english
 >> and "graph�me" in french are not quite synonym. For instance, "ph" is
 >> commonly regarded as a single grapheme in french (<--> phoneme /f/
 >> indeed), so that grapheme and chracter are not at all synonyms; while
 >> according to en-wikipedia's article it may be 2 in english. What do you
 >> think?
 >
 > No, a grapheme is the common notion of character:

That's my understanding too. I think the article spends too much time 
comparing graphemes and phonemes. The former is about writing, the 
latter is about speech.

Ali