[ruby-core:82241] [Ruby trunk Feature#13780][Assigned] String#each_grapheme

Issue #13780 has been updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE).

Status changed from Open to Assigned
Assignee set to naruse (Yui NARUSE)
Target version set to 2.5

Accepted.
I'll introduce this in Ruby 2.5.

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Feature #13780: String#each_grapheme
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13780#change-66020

* Author: rbjl (Jan Lelis)
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: naruse (Yui NARUSE)
* Target version: 2.5
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Ruby's regex engine has support for graphemes via `\X`:

https://github.com/k-takata/Onigmo/blob/791140951eefcf17db4e762e789eb046ea8a114c/doc/RE#L117-L124

This is really useful when working with Unicode strings. However, code like `string.scan(/\X/)` is not so readable enough, which might lead people to use String#each_char, when they really should split by graphemes.

What I propose is two new methods:

- String#each_grapheme which returns an Enumerator of graphemes (in the same way like `\X`)

and 

- String#graphemes which returns an Array of graphemes (in the same way like `\X`)

What do you think?

Resources

- Unicode速 Standard Annex #29: Unicode Text Segmentation: http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
- Related issue: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12831




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