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Subject: Re: How do I display unicode value stored in a string variable using ord()
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
> UTF-8 is highly inefficient for indexing. Given a buffer of (say) a
> few thousand bytes, how do you locate the 273rd character? 

How often do you need to do that, as opposed to traversing the string by
iteration?  Anyway, you could use a rope-like implementation, or an
index structure over the string.