In the last post we looked at the Unicode, the international standard for encoding, representing and handling, text. In this article, we build on that knowledge and look at how we can handle, process, and manipulate, characters and strings in Swift.
An Introduction to Unicode
Unicode is an international text encoding standard that underpins Swift’s `Character` and `String` types. In this article, we’ll look at how this standard came into being, we’ll look at it’s basic mechanics and we’ll look at how it is used in practice.