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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:37:16 -0700
Subject: Re: Language design
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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> Unicode is not 16-bit any more than ASCII is 8-bit. And you used the
> word "encod[e]", which is the standard way to turn Unicode into bytes
> anyway. No, a Unicode string is a series of codepoints - it's most
> similar to a list of ints than to a stream of bytes.

Okay, now you're in blah, blah land.

--mark