Specify unit of column offsets

[puremourning]

Forgive me if I missed it, but I couldn't see a specification for the values of column offsets.

Examples:

• Breakpoint locations
• Stack trace locations
• Completion request (assuming the text item is utf-8 encoded, what does the column items count ? bytes? or codepoints ? ).

I realise with LSP there is a bit of a fiasco with it being specified as UTF16 code units, is that also the assumption here?

[weinand]

Today columns offsets are based on a UTF-16 string representation.
But we are planning to make this negotiable via DAP capabilities.

[puremourning]

So they are like LSP; UTF-8 code units?

[weinand]

No, LSP is based on a UTF-16 string representation which means that it uses 16-bit code units.
And DAP uses the same.

[puremourning]

Sorry yes I typod I mean utf 16 code units.

Thanks for the clarification.