[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 65395] Regional indicator symbols that are combined should behave as a single character when editing

Sat Jul 30 20:57:24 PDT 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65395

--- Comment #8 from mitz at webkit.org  2011-07-30 20:57:24 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> In more technical terms, my question was whether these symbols form extended grapheme clusters.

I believe that the answer is “not by default, but possibly by tailoring”.

> In WebCore, these are returned by characterBreakIterator, which just calls ICU.
> 
> We sometimes allow cursor positioning inside extended grapheme clusters. We should probably never disallow cursor positioning at a place where a character break can occur (e.g. for truncation).

It now occurs to me that WebKit should also prohibit line breaks between two regional indicator symbols that combine, even in line wrapping modes that allow breaking between “characters”.

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