[Bug 1864869] Re: ICU returns unexpected length for string

[Steven R. Loomis]

I added a comment to the PHP bug, I think it is working as designed.
Please track ICU bugs at https://unicode-org.atlassian.net (project ICU) thanks!

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Title:
  ICU returns unexpected length for string

Status in icu package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in php7.4 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Calculating the grapheme string length for the word 'नमस्ते' returns 3
  instead of 4.

  This version returns unexpected result of 3:
  ICU version 	65.1
  ICU Data version 	65.1
  ICU TZData version 	2019c
  ICU Unicode version 	12.1 

  This version returns the expected result of 4:
  ICU version => 63.1
  ICU Data version => 63.1
  ICU TZData version => 2018e
  ICU Unicode version => 11.0

  PHP says this is an upstream issue:
  https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79308

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