@aral Unrelated to the technical point but more a statement of where we are with respect to representing our languages using computers. It's endless screaming all the way down! I was laughing as I read your post because yesterday I had read this: "Furthermore, we would like to suggest that counting or otherwise iterating over Unicode code points should not be seen as a particularly important task in text processing scenarios." And I thought… well… maybe one day? 😆
https://utf8everywhere.org/