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GVariant: titlecase ‘Unicode’ in text format docs

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<para>
The functions that deal with GVariant text format absolutely always deal in utf-8. Conceptually, GVariant
text format is a string of unicode characters -- not bytes. Non-ASCII but otherwise printable unicode
text format is a string of Unicode characters -- not bytes. Non-ASCII but otherwise printable Unicode
characters are not treated any differently from normal ASCII characters.
</para>
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completely equivalent (except for the fact that each one is unable to contain itself unescaped).
</para>
<para>
Strings are unicode strings with no particular encoding. For example, to specify the character
<literal>é</literal>, you just write <literal>'é'</literal>. You could also give the unicode codepoint of
Strings are Unicode strings with no particular encoding. For example, to specify the character
<literal>é</literal>, you just write <literal>'é'</literal>. You could also give the Unicode codepoint of
that character (U+E9) as the escape sequence <literal>'\u00e9'</literal>. Since the strings are pure
unicode, you should not attempt to encode the utf-8 byte sequence corresponding to the string using escapes;
Unicode, you should not attempt to encode the utf-8 byte sequence corresponding to the string using escapes;
it won't work and you'll end up with the individual characters corresponding to each byte.
</para>
<para>
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</para>
<para>
The usual octal and hexidecimal escapes <literal>\0nnn</literal> and <literal>\xnn</literal> are not
supported here. Those escapes are used to encode byte values and GVariant strings are unicode.
supported here. Those escapes are used to encode byte values and GVariant strings are Unicode.
</para>
<para>
Single-character strings are not interpreted as bytes. Bytes must be specified by their numerical value.