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docs: clarify Unicode sequence representation - #100
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Summary
Clarify the sequence representation used for Unicode and byte-string inputs.
For Python
strinput, the extension reads the CPython Unicode representation,so Levenshtein operates on the string's Unicode code-point sequence rather than
its UTF-8 byte encoding.
For
bytesinput, the sequence elements are byte values.The documentation also clarifies that code-point distance is distinct from
grapheme-cluster distance, and that Unicode normalization or grapheme
segmentation must be performed by the caller when those semantics are required.
No implementation behavior is changed.