Combining Devanagari characters

Question

I have something like

a = \"बिक्रम मेरो नाम हो\"

I want to achieve something like

a[0] = बि
a[1] = क्र
a[3] = म
         


        

Answer 1

There's a pure-Python library called uniseg which provides a number of utilities including a grapheme cluster iterator which provides the behaviour you described:

>>> a = u"बिक्रम मेरो नाम हो"
>>> from uniseg.graphemecluster import grapheme_clusters
>>> for i in grapheme_clusters(a): print(i)
... 
बि
क्
र
म

मे
रो

ना
म

हो

It claims to implement the full Unicode text segmentation algorithm described in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/tr29-21.html.