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		pjmlp on May 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additio... Yeah there are some quirks, but that wasn't part of OP's request.

jabl on May 17, 2020 [–]

Well, I did specify "modern", which arguably includes sane Unicode handling.

I think a reasonable compromise is to have "char" be a 32 bit type, whereas a "string" would be UTF8.

pjmlp on May 17, 2020 | [–]

Not sure if I would call string handling in Swift sane, but to each its own.

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