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# ExpressibleByExtendedGraphemeClusterLiteral

A type that can be initialized with a string literal containing a single
extended grapheme cluster.

```
protocol ExpressibleByExtendedGraphemeClusterLiteral : ExpressibleByUnicodeScalarLiteral
```

## Overview

An *extended grapheme cluster* is a group of one or more Unicode scalar
values that approximates a single user-perceived character.  Many
individual characters, such as “é”, “김”, and “🇮🇳”, can be made up of
multiple Unicode scalar values. These code points are combined by
Unicode’s boundary algorithms into extended grapheme clusters.

The `String`, `StaticString`, and `Character` types conform to the
`ExpressibleByExtendedGraphemeClusterLiteral` protocol. You can initialize
a variable or constant of any of these types using a string literal that
holds a single character.

```
let snowflake: Character = "❄︎"
print(snowflake)
// Prints "❄︎"
```

# Conforming to ExpressibleByExtendedGraphemeClusterLiteral

To add `ExpressibleByExtendedGraphemeClusterLiteral` conformance to your
custom type, implement the required initializer.

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