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It's ambiguous because it's not clear what elements go into separate cells of the array.

Why is it ambiguous? The Python documentation is pretty clear about what type of elements a string contains:

> Strings are immutable sequences of Unicode code points

(from https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#text-sequenc...)

According to python. Every language can have a different definition. C#, for example, defines the blocks to be Char objects, which is based on UTF 16:

> The Length property of a string represents the number of Char objects it contains, not the number of Unicode characters.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-...

Though C# also recommends the Rune APIs for more modern/better code point handling. The Rune APIs have a bit more in common with Python 3's unicode treatment than the classic (and sometimes wrong) UTF-16 approach.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.text.run...

Did you not read the article?

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