On 01/16/2014 06:56 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
Note that the Unicode definition of an unqualified "character" is the translation of a code *point*, which is very different from a *glyph*, which is what people generally associate the word "character" with. Thus, `string` is not an array of characters (i.e. an array where each element is a character), but `dstring` can be said to be.
A character can be made of more than one dchar. (There are also more exotic examples, eg. IIRC there are cases where three dchars make approximately two characters.)
