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For old-style strings where one character equals one byte, it's not really a problem. Nowadays with Unicode and multibyte characters, and much worse with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence Unicode equivalence] it is. How are languages with Unicode support expected to deal with this?
Wikipedia gives the example of the character "ñ" which can be encoded by U+00F1, or alternately U+006E followed by U+0303
And while we are at it, note that, while "EEE" is a string which ''has all the same characters'', "EΕЕ" is not.
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