Beginner not getting "string"

[BCS]

Hello Nick,

> "BCS" <none at anon.com> wrote in message
> news:a6268ff1afa68cd1591044967ce at news.digitalmars.com...
> 
>> Hello Nick,
>> 
>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in
>>> message news:i5e88k$2p0t$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> 
>>>> wchar is a UTF-16 code point.
>>>> 
>>> Please tell me that's a typo. This isn't the era of UCS-2.
>>> 
>> Even if choosing to use UTF-16 is a bad idea (and I'm in no position
>> to say it is)being able to read/write it to interact with things that
>> already use it is a good idea.
>> 
> What I meant is that I'm fairly sure a wchar should be a code *unit*
> (just like char is a code unit), not a code *point*.
> 

Given that I had to read three differnt pages twice each before I located 
a clear statement of which was which (talk about boring reading!) I'd be 
willing to guess that that was a slip up.

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