Comment by zzo38computer

> Unfortunately no, Unicode is not simply a mapping of bytes to characters. It is a mapping of numbers to code points, and in some cases you can even get the same characters with multiple code point sequences (not a very good mapping!).

It is worse than that; you can also get different characters with the same code points, and also same code points and characters that should be different according to some uses, and also different code points and characters that should be same according to some uses, etc.