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String.length should mention it counts UTF-16 code units #1047

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malaire opened this issue Oct 9, 2019 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #1055
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String.length should mention it counts UTF-16 code units #1047

malaire opened this issue Oct 9, 2019 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #1055
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malaire commented Oct 9, 2019

Documentation of String.length should mention that it returns length as number of UTF-16 code units.

Or alternatively perhaps the note at String type which says "Strings are not lists of characters." should be expanded to say "Strings are not lists of characters, but lists of UTF-16 code points." or something like that.
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showell commented Oct 24, 2019

I think the correct terminology is "UTF-16 code units", not "UTF-16 code points." Or you could say "Unicode code points encoded with UTF-16".
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evancz commented Feb 9, 2021

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