Break an UTF-8 character vector into grapheme clusters

Break an UTF-8 character vector into grapheme clusters

utf8_graphemes(x)

Arguments

x

Character vector.

Value

List of characters vectors, the grapheme clusters of the input string.

See also

Other UTF-8 string manipulation: utf8_nchar(), utf8_substr()

Examples

# Five grapheme clusters
str <- paste0(
  "\U0001f477\U0001f3ff\u200d\u2640\ufe0f",
  "\U0001f477\U0001f3ff",
  "\U0001f477\u200d\u2640\ufe0f",
  "\U0001f477\U0001f3fb",
  "\U0001f477\U0001f3ff")
cat(str, "\n")
#> 👷🏿‍♀️👷🏿👷‍♀️👷🏻👷🏿 
chrs <- utf8_graphemes(str)