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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:40:15 +1000
Subject: Re: Language design
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Mark Janssen
<dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Eh?

Apart from the grammatical oddity (artifact of editing - should be
"more similar" not "most similar"), I don't see anything wrong in what
I said there.

ChrisA