Allow going inside graphemes (with an explicit gesture)

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version: 1.56.2
• OS Version: Windows 10 WSL: Ubuntu-20.04

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Try to edit individual letters in this unicode string: '([ô্িুৃেোাীূৈৌঅইউঋএওআঈঊঐঔ])'
2. The entire ô্িুৃেোাীূৈৌ part is grouped together.

Initial cursor position:

After shifting cursor one time:

[alexdima]

From an user’s perspective, code editors should allow editing any form of text down to miniscule letters.

VS Code does this if you press backspace. But VS Code does not allow you to “go inside” a grapheme. This is consistent with the Unicode standard and other Unicode compliant text or code editors.

The vscode terminal seems to be able to handle these characters separately.

The vscode terminal does not implement the Unicode grapheme cluster boundary rules.

[alexdima]

@m33b00 The only workaround I’m aware of is to use F1 > Go To Line/Column and then input a position that would be inside the grapheme.