"How to specify character ranges" is a problem that keeps appearing - can we resolve this once and for all, and then ensure we're consistent with that in all XEPs?
There are only three sensible options: 1. Start = first character (inclusive), end = last character (exclusive); 2. Start = first character (inclusive), end = last character (inclusive); 3. Start = Boundary before first character, end = boundary after last character. Option 1 is what I presume most are familiar with as that's how indexing works in many programming languages, and option 2 makes some sense as you're pointing to the first and last characters to be included. The problem with the first two options is that it leads to this inclusive/exclusive confusion where the text seems to say one thing and the example says another. Option 3 sidesteps that issue by indexing the positions between characters, rather than the characters themselves - so a character is either before or after a boundary, and is explicitly included or excluded from a range. Numerically, this is actually equivalent to option 1, but by describing it in this way, the confusion never arises.
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