# SubString doesn't work with unicode

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/substring-doesnt-work-with-unicode/40976>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, unicode\
**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/substring-doesnt-work-with-unicode/40976 "2020-06-08T08:16:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/substring-doesnt-work-with-unicode/40976/14 "2022-06-17T22:07:33Z")

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> [@davidavdav](#):
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> However I can’t imagine this is the kind of thing a novice Julia user is supposed to conjure up if she wants to substring based on character index rather than byte-in-utf8-encoding index.

As I commented [in the other thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/substring-function/76675/10), anyone seeking to index strings this way is probably making a mistake, because [Unicode is too complicated for character indexing to be useful](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/substring-function/76675/34).

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