doc: don't refer to 'char' as characters

This seems to be causing some confusion among users. Rust's char are
not 8bit characters, but 32bit UCS-4 codepoint without surrogates
(Unicode Scalar Values as per Unicode glossary).
Make the doc more explicit about it.

Signed-off-by: Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org>
doc: uniform std::char doc-strings

Uniform and beautify doc-string for current rustdoc output.

Signed-off-by: Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org>
doc: add two missing char methods doc-strings

XID_* property are defined in UAX #31, just reference it here.

Signed-off-by: Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org>
Removed DeepClone. Issue #12698.
auto merge of #12759 : lucab/rust/char-doc, r=alexcrichton

This is mostly a reaction to #12730. If we are going to keep calling them `char`, at least make it clear that they aren't characters but codepoint/scalar.
Refactored get_metadata_section to return a Result<T,~str>, added error messages. Closes #6615.
auto merge of #12706 : pongad/rust/issue_12698, r=brson

Fixes #12698
auto merge of #12758 : rgawdzik/rust/master, r=alexcrichton

Refactored get_metadata_section to return a Result<MetadataBlob,~str> instead of a Option<MetadataBlob>. This provides more clarity to the user through the debug output when using --ls.

This is kind of a continuation of my original closed pull request 2 months ago (#11544), but I think the time-span constitutes a new pull request.
rename std::vec -> std::slice

Closes #12702