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Turning the positions the LSP speaks in into offsets into a file.
A position is a line and a column, both counted from zero, and the column is counted in UTF-16 code units – not bytes, and not characters. For a line of ASCII all three agree, which is why the difference is easy to miss and unforgiving when it bites: on a line with an accented letter the byte offset runs ahead, and on one with an emoji the UTF-16 count does.
Functions§
- byte_
offset - The byte offset of the LSP position (
line,character) intext.