Honestly, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that 99% of the time, this is needless pedantry. Yes, these assumptions are technically wrong, but most of the time, let's be real, they're right, or else people wouldn't be able to get away with making them.
Characters are integers, that is a fact. Most of the time, they're a byte, and to be honest, English/ASCII is the most important text setup for computers and it's fine to only support that. For the niche foreign edge cases, Windows supports UCS-2.
Characters are integers, that is a fact. Most of the time, they're a byte, and to be honest, English/ASCII is the most important text setup for computers and it's fine to only support that. For the niche foreign edge cases, Windows supports UCS-2.