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by pjmlp 2230 days ago
Yeah there are some quirks, but that wasn't part of OP's request.
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jabl 2230 days ago
Well, I did specify "modern", which arguably includes sane Unicode handling.

I think a reasonable compromise is to have "char" be a 32 bit type, whereas a "string" would be UTF8.

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pjmlp 2229 days ago
Not sure if I would call string handling in Swift sane, but to each its own.
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