[ChrisMarshallNY]

That’s the article title, and the article is over two years old, so I’m not sure it’s an effective data point for the diagnosis.

[kzrdude]

It's kind of an off-putting title for a good article, to be honest.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I agree. It is an excellent article. Text systems are weird.

There's an entire book about strings, in Swift: https://flight.school/books/strings/