No. Let's do a quick recap: You said that people ought never address text by characters or bytes. I'm pointing out that this is nonsense and I offered several

No. Let's do a quick recap: You said that people ought never address text by characters or bytes. I'm pointing out that this is nonsense and I offered several examples. You responded saying basically that those tasks are complex and someone else should do it. In your followup response, you recommend using ICU which ... has an interface for iterating by character. Which is all I had mentioned to begin with. Sigh.