On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:29 , Greg Parker <gpar...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> my understanding is that when Cocoa says "character" it usually means "UTF-16 
> code unit". @"🚲".length == 2, for example. Cocoa's string API designed when 
> Unicode was still a true 16-bit character set.

I would have said so, too, except that NSCharacterSet has this 
‘longCharacterIsMember: (UTF32Char)’ API, which seems inexplicable if the 
parameter is a UTF-16 code unit, since that’s what ‘characterIsMember: 
(unichar)’ is apparently for.



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