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by SimonSapin 4040 days ago
Opinions: no it’s not worth the hassle. Yes, "fixed length" is misguided. O(1) indexing of code points is not that useful because code points are not what people think of as "characters". (See combining code points.) http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/9/ucs-vs-utf8/