Do 'Grapheme_Extend' characters only apply to 'Grapheme_Base'?

From: Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:25:42 -0700

Mathias Bynens <mathias at qiwi dot be> wrote:

> Let's say I'm writing a program that strips combining characters and
> grapheme extenders from an input string.
>
> For combining marks, I'm looking for any non-combining marks (e.g.
> 'a') followed by one or more combining marks (e.g. ' ̃'), and then I
> remove everything but the non-combining mark (e.g. leaving only 'a').
> Is this a correct approach?

It's entirely up to you. This is a rather unusual thing to want to do
with text. Fr mn lnggs, t wld b qvlnt t strppng ll vwls t f th txt.

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