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Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
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@@ -342,7 +342,9 @@ A character is not an Unicode character but a single byte. The reason for this
is efficiency: for the overwhelming majority of use-cases, the resulting
programs will still handle UTF-8 properly as UTF-8 was specially designed for
this. Another reason is that Nimrod can thus support ``array[char, int]`` or
``set[char]`` efficiently as many algorithms rely on this feature.
``set[char]`` efficiently as many algorithms rely on this feature. The `TRune`
type is used for Unicode characters, it can represent any Unicode character.
``TRune`` is declared in the `unicode module <unicode.html>`_.
Numerical constants
@@ -773,7 +775,8 @@ designed for this.
Another reason is that Nimrod can support ``array[char, int]`` or
``set[char]`` efficiently as many algorithms rely on this feature. The
`TRune` type is used for Unicode characters, it can represent any Unicode
character. ``TRune`` is declared in the ``unicode`` module.
character. ``TRune`` is declared in the `unicode module <unicode.html>`_.
@@ -870,8 +873,8 @@ arrays, they can be used in case statements:
Per convention, all strings are UTF-8 strings, but this is not enforced. For
example, when reading strings from binary files, they are merely a sequence of
bytes. The index operation ``s[i]`` means the i-th *char* of ``s``, not the
i-th *unichar*. The iterator ``runes`` from the ``unicode``
module can be used for iteration over all Unicode characters.
i-th *unichar*. The iterator ``runes`` from the `unicode module
<unicode.html>`_ can be used for iteration over all Unicode characters.
CString type