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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by Animats on Sunday June 19, 2016 @08:40PM (#11935481)
I didn't know that. That's funny. They really are doing this the hard way.
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Re:UTF-8 Everywhere (2012) by int_19h on Monday June 20, 2016 @01:04AM (#11936151)
It really is the hard way. For the curious, read through the comment here describing the data layout and invariants:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Include/unicod...

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