I prefer it to be counted in bytes. If it is counted in Bytes then I
can build a routine that counts in real chars. And we already have a
lot of code to handle utf-8 inside ansisstring which depends on that.
Counting the elements in real chars is very ineficient.
This is commonly agreed, But counting in code elements breaks old code
counting in code points sometimes is more handy. That is why I vote for
making the default syntax (s[i], pos(), copy(), ...) user selectable,
while of course providing dedicated functions for both flavors.
-Michael
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