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[[User:Eoraptor|Eoraptor]] ([[User talk:Eoraptor|talk]]) 13:45, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
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Not just of course, <big> ... ''the same comment applies to the other task''</big>, there are numerous others.
There are many Rosetta Code tasks that deal with a '''character''' or '''characters''', and there are many other tasks that use the word '''character''' or '''characters''', all of them (if not most of them, unless noted otherwise) as far as I recall, refer to a byte, ASCII/EBCDIC character(s), to an 8-bit character, or other such similar designations/nomenclatures.
Some of Rosetta Code tasks that I found which deal specifically with ''character''/''characters'' (words which are in their task title) are (and I'm sure that some were missed/overlooked):
• Character code
• Character codes
• Character matching
• Determine if a string has all the same characters
• Determine if a string has all unique characters
• Display an extended (non ASCII) character onto the terminal
• Given a character value in your language, print its code
• Idiomatically determine all the characters that can be used for symbols
• Just in time processing on a character stream
• Read a file character by character/UTF8
• Remove the first and last characters from a string/Top and tail
• Special characters
• Split a character string based on change of character
• String Character Length
• Strip a set of characters from a string
• Strip control codes and extended characters from a string
• Terminal control/Display an extended character
• Terminal Control/Reading a character at a specific location on the screen
• Words Of Equal Characters
There are way too many other Rosetta Code tasks to mention that deal with ''characters'' in some form or another.
Since Rosetta Code deals (essentially) computer programming languages, and almost always (in my opinion), deals with characters that are, in essence, the same as bytes (8 bits). This Rosetta Code task is in that tradition. I didn't expect to have to define what a character ''is'', just as all the other tasks dealt with this question.
If somebody wants to add a definition to all the existing Rosetta Code tasks that use the word '''character''', I would not stand in their way.
As for the problem of
''How are languages with Unicode support expected to deal with this?''
is a question I'm not able to answer competently. Perhaps that query could be answered/addressed by learned people with more experience with Unicode support in languages they know well. Defining '''character(s)''' at this late point would really add a lot of verbiage to quite a few Rosetta Code tasks, not to mention discussion pages. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 15:56, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
As an aside, I always thought of ''Thundergnat'' as quite the character, but he is much more than 8 bits; a description I hope he takes as a compliment. <big><big><big><big> 😉 </big></big></big></big> -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 15:56, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
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