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Re:TIL the assumption that string length does not change whe... by arcticbull on Monday November 22, 2021 @01:31AM (#29303462)
That’s what Rust does too, in the standard library offering #1 and #4, UTF-8 bytes and code points. Because they named a code point type a char, though, folks continue to assume a code point is a grapheme cluster. Which it frequently is, and that makes things worse.
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Re:TIL the assumption that string length does not change whe... by garmaine on Monday November 22, 2021 @02:21AM (#29303743)
Only in some languages.
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