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piersadrian on March 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Emoji.length == 2

I would point you to Swift's implementation of its "Character" type. Swift string handling is a model for how programming languages should approach Unicode characters and their complex combinations. The standard interface into all Swift strings is its "Character" type, which works exclusively with grapheme clusters.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw...

smackfu on March 11, 2017 [–]

And they are changing a bunch of it for Swift 4: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/StringManife...

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