With this "whole sequence" view of characters, the total number of
characters is open-ended. But in the programmer's "one unit is one
character" point of view, the concept of "characters" is more
-deterministic. In this document, we take that second point of view:
+deterministic. In this document, we take that second point of view:
one "character" is one Unicode code point.
For some combinations, there are I<precomposed> characters.