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MBCook on Jan 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: UTF-8 Everywhere

That's the purpose of the Rune type, I believe. When you iterate over text, it gives you one character at a time, not a fixed number of bytes.

pjscott on Jan 17, 2014 [–]

That's iteration by code point, not by grapheme. For example, the grapheme 'ä' may be represented as two code points: an 'a' and a combining diaeresis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_point

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme

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