73: UTF-8 Strings in Swift 5

Swift Unwrapped

Relevant Links

• UTF-8 String blog post on swift.org
• Piercing the String Veil post on Swift forums
• SE-241 Deprecate String Index Encoded Offsets
• SR-9749: The bug that led to deprecating encodedOffset

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