integer::text == text, but which character 0x03 or 0x33 ?
x33
Text should contain characters.
Characters is from character set.
Character 0x03 is valid in ASCII and UTF-8 character sets.
So is x33
Which one is more useful to the typical programmer (which given you concept of works and wrong in the OP your problem space is probably not typical)? Treating the integer value 3 as a code point reference or treating it as a character in a given character set.
I hope you agree that the character interpretation is more useful, though regardless of your agreement that is what happens. Everything else is just an implementation detail.
Numbers > 9 are converted digit-by-digit into their character representations and then concatenated together.
