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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by acqq on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:20AM (#21212766)
> now that I think about it, VLQ already does satisfy the synchronization requirement

What was then the advantage of UTF8 over VLQ?

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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by SamReidHughes on Thursday October 10, 2019 @06:51AM (#21212958)
You can determine whether the leading character is complete or not.
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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by acqq on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:54AM (#21213385)
Other comments know, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21212851

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