ing of things or nothing will make sense.</p>

<p>Until now, we've assumed that a letter maps to some bits which you can store on disk or in memory:</p>

<p>A -&gt; 0100 0001</p>

<p>In Unicode, a letter maps to something called a <em>code point</em> which is still just a theoretical concept. How that code point is represented in memory or on disk is a whole nuther story.</p>

<p>In Unicode, the letter A is a platonic ideal. It's just floating in heaven:</p>

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