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1.1 What is it

Instances of the NSString class represent strings composed of unicode characters. Unicode characters are described by a 16-bit integer; this type is called unichar in GNUstep, but you will very rarely (if ever) need to work with it directly. Unicode is a standard which supports the character sets of nearly all human languages.