>>> Hint: There's more to Unicode than just ~1 million code points with
>>> glyphs mapped to some of them.
>>
>> Sure. But if you can't even /write down/ those code-points, that's kinda
>> limiting.
>>
>> (It also strikes me that if the String type /can/ hold them all and Char
>> /can't/, that has interesting implications for trying to iterate over a
>> String one Char at a time...)
>
> As soon as you think of combining diacritics, you'll see that this type
> of limitation is actually inevitable

I guess combining characters are The Real WTF...

(No, wait - that's the BOM.)

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