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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: multi bytes character - how to make it defined behavior?
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 02:41:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:31:59 -0300, Thiago Adams wrote:

> 215 is the unicode number of the character '×'.

Be careful about the use of the term “character” in Unicode.

Unicode defines “code points”. A “grapheme” (which I think is their term 
for “character”) can be made up of one or more “code points”, with no 
upper limit on their number.