Thanks for the examples, your point makes sense to me now. Combining characters or modifier characters and all other weird aspects of unicode really call for a

Thanks for the examples, your point makes sense to me now. Combining characters or modifier characters and all other weird aspects of unicode really call for a separate library for parsing unicode, since even with relying on 1 UTF-8 codepoint == 1 text unit, one doesn't get much advantage, because 1 character isn't always 1 UTF-8 codepoint.