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Use Erlang. It has 32-bit char.

• toast0 6y ago
  Not really. Strings are a list of integers [1], integers are signed and fill a system word, but there's also 4 bits of type information. So you can have a 28-bit signed integer char on a 32-bit system or a signed 60-bit integer. However, since Unicode is limited to 21-bits by utf-16 encoding, a unicode code point will fit in a small integer. [1] unless you use binaries, which is often a better choice.