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:Presumably it comes from the rather obvious expression "a string of characters" (as in "these go some characters stringing by"), equivalent to "a string of pearls" or "a sequence of characters" or other similar phrases. — [[User:Loadmaster|Loadmaster]] ([[User talk:Loadmaster|talk]]) 16:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
== Trying to stop misuse of character encodings ==
The edits I keep trying are to stop a whole army of uninformed but well-meaning programmers who think strlen() should parse and count the Unicode code points in a string. This is a totally useless definition and causing no end of grief when systems do this. For some reason otherwise intelligent programmers turn into these complete morons when presented with UTF-8 and this is actually seriously damaging any ability to do internationalization. If anybody can think of a wording that says these answers are different and that the fixed-size one is "better" it would help a lot. The reverted-to wording implies that the number of characters is the more important attribute, which is wrong.[[User:Spitzak|Spitzak]] ([[User talk:Spitzak|talk]]) 04:10, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
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