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# Strings are a complicated data structure
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Given the Hindi word "नमस्ते":
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1. It can be represented as a byte array of 18 bytes:
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`[224, 164, 168, 224, 164, 174, 224, 164, 184, 224, 165, 141, 224, 164, 164, 224, 165, 135]`
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2. If you look at Unicode scalar values, you get an array of 6 characters:
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`['न', 'म', 'स', '्', 'त', 'े']`
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3. But the fourth and sixth letters are diacritics. To get the human-readable letters, you need to look at the strings as an array of *grapheme clusters*:
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`["न", "म", "स्", "ते"]`
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:programming:
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