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by llimllib 498 days ago
> In pretty much every "Unicode string" library/language type I've seen, each individual codepoint is a "character"

languages are actually really inconsistent on what they count as a unicode character: https://hsivonen.fi/string-length/

(I don't broadly disagree with you on unicode support, just linking an article relevant to that claim)