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char

One Unicode character, four bytes wide.

char holds one Unicode scalar value and is always 4 bytes.

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Examples

  • std::mem::size_of::<char>() is 4, but in a string "a".len() is 1 and "🦀".len() is 4: text stores each character in one to four bytes.

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