[swift-users] Splitting a string into "natural/visual character" components?

[Jens Persson]

FWIW: I can conclude that the third example does not render correctly in
Gmail ...

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Jens Persson <jens at bitcycle.com> wrote:

> I want a function f such that:
>
> f("abc") == ["a", "b", "c"]
>
> f("café") == ["c", "a", "f", "é"]
>
> f("👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👷🏾‍♀️") == ["👨‍👩‍👧‍👦", "👷🏾‍♀️"]
>
> I'm not sure if the last example renders correctly by mail for everyone
> but the input String contains these _two_ "natural/visual characters":
> (1) A family emoji
> (2) a construction worker (woman, with skin tone modifier) emoji.
> and the result is an Array of two strings (one for each emoji).
>
> The first two examples are easy, the third example is the tricky one.
>
> Is there a (practical) way to do this (in Swift 3)?
>
> /Jens
>
>
>
> PS
>
> It's OK if the function has to depend on eg a graphics context etc.
> (I tried writing a function so that it extracts the glyphs, using
> NSTextStorage, NSLayoutManager and the AppleColorEmoji font, but it says
> that "👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👷🏾‍♀️" contains 18(!) glyphs, whereas eg "café" contains
> 4 as expected.)
>
> If the emojis of the third example doesn't look like they should in this
> mail, here is another way to write the exact same example using only simple
> text:
>
> let inputOfThirdExample = "\u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F469}\u{
> 200D}\u{1F467}\u{200D}\u{1F466}\u{1F477}\u{1F3FE}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}"
>
> let result = f(inputOfThirdExample)
>
> let expectedResult = ["\u{1F468}\u{200D}\u{1F469}\
> u{200D}\u{1F467}\u{200D}\u{1F466}", "\u{1F477}\u{1F3FE}\u{200D}\u{
> 2640}\u{FE0F}"]
>
> print(result.elementsEqual(result)) // Should print true
>
>
>
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