[M3devel] UTF-8 TEXT

[Hendrik Boom]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:20:41PM -0500, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
> 
> Text is highly general and easy to use.  Concatentations and substrings
> are easy.  Semantics, to its clients, are value semantics, similar to INTEGER.
> Random access by *character* number is easy and, hopefully, implemented
> with efficiency at least better than O(n).

Does it have to be a *character* number we use to index a string?  I 
don't know of any situations where that aspect is importnat enough 
to force everyone to waste storage on it.

-- hendrik