# Weird string slicing in korean

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weird-string-slicing-in-korean/92252>\
**Category:** Performance\
**Created:** [December 29, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weird-string-slicing-in-korean/92252 "2022-12-29T01:17:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/weird-string-slicing-in-korean/92252/2 "2022-12-29T01:36:58Z")

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this is intentional. strings are indexed by bytes for performance reasons

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