Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Chris]

On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 11:19:14 UTC, Chris wrote:

>
> One problem imo is that they mixed the terms up: "Grapheme: A 
> minimally distinctive unit of writing in the context of a 
> particular writing system." In linguistics a grapheme is not a 
> single character like "á" or "g". It may also be a combination 
> of characters like in English spelling <sh> ("s" + "h") that 
> maps to a phoneme (e.g. ship, shut, shadow). In German this 
> sound is written as <sch> as in "Schiff" (ship) (but not 
> always, cf. "s" in "Stange").
>

Sorry, this should read "In linguistics a grapheme is not 
_necessarily_ _only_ a single character like "á" or "g"."