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Re:Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go by derefr on Thursday October 24, 2013 @04:42AM (#6604015)
> and a code point is still not a user-perceived character

How about indexing, measuring and slicing operations based on user-perceived characters, then?

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Re:Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go by iv_08 on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:03AM (#6604098)
I think the number of displayed characters is even font-dependent.
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Re:Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go by codeka on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:00AM (#6604080)
Because even that is not exactly trivial, particularly for noon-Latin languages.
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