> Code units (whether UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, or whatever) are
> bit patterns that are used to encode Unicode scalar values.
> As programmers and as language designers, one of our guiding
> principles is that bit patterns don't matter except where
> they are forced upon us by the external world, typically via
> i/o.

Or when the abstraction leaks, as string-ref does for UTF-8 and UTF-16. Do 
you think that being able to write string-find portably & efficiently is 
important?

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