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Re:Dealing with Unicode in Go by tsewlliw on Thursday May 23, 2013 @12:12PM (#5757634)
Is rune "right" even? I thought that rune was a single codepoint. How does that behave in the presence of combining characters or in non normalized unicode strings?

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Re:Dealing with Unicode in Go by cthom06 on Thursday May 23, 2013 @12:28PM (#5757727)
Yes it is a single codepoint. Normalization is a whole other issue, and a much less trivial one.
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