# Dot calls / broadcasts for strings

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dot-calls-broadcasts-for-strings/61195>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question, strings, broadcast\
**Created:** [May 15, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dot-calls-broadcasts-for-strings/61195 "2021-05-15T09:56:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![rafael.guerra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rafael.guerra/32/216610_2.png) [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/dot-calls-broadcasts-for-strings/61195/11 "2021-05-15T13:14:16Z")

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Scratching my head to understand this:

> [@stevengj](#):
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> `"Raphaël"` and `"Raphaël"` are [canonically equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence) strings, but they _don’t_ contain the same `Char` s (or even the same _number_ of `Char` s).

Is there a typo? Thank you for shedding some more light.

**Later edit:**  
_[Your other post here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/string-getindex-problem/41743) helps understanding this a bit further._

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