[stdlib] Revise documentation for string-related types & protocols #2644
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What's in this pull request?
This documentation revision covers a large number of types & protocols:
String, its views and their indices, the Unicode codec types and protocol, as well asCharacter,UnicodeScalar, andStaticString, among others.This also includes a few small changes across the standard library for consistency and a new test fixture to match the updated documentation.
Finally, this turns off the test requiring that the standard library generated interface be ASCII-only—the new
Stringdocumentation contains a fair amount of non-ASCII text to demonstrate the features of Swift's string system.Resolved bug number: n/a
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