flower-field: Avoid confusion in hint #2118
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Using "char" as an abbreviation in this context can lead to confusion. It could be interpreted as the Rust type "char". The size of that type is always 4 bytes. The sentence refers to a character as it is encoded in the UTF-8 string. Motivated by this forum post: https://forum.exercism.org/t/flower-field-explains-char-different-from-rust-docs/20304
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Using "char" as an abbreviation in this context can lead to confusion. It could be interpreted as the Rust type "char". The size of that type is always 4 bytes. The sentence refers to a character as it is encoded in the UTF-8 string.
Motivated by this forum post:
https://forum.exercism.org/t/flower-field-explains-char-different-from-rust-docs/20304