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I don't think I am mixing it up. The char type is not a unicode character just like the byte is not. Yet, these are the characters in a string type. Python went to fix this, jvm and clr didn't.

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I'm not that familiar with C#[1], but in Java char is absolutely an unicode character. That's why you have char and byte types. Java clearly separates them, and so is python since version 3.

[1] although from quick googling it looks like C# handles things the same way as Java.

This used to be the case when every unicode character could fit in 16 bits. Now, most methods that take char may fail: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Characte...

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