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Re:UTF-8 history (2003) by boomlinde on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:29PM (#21217119)
> Is there a language that consistently uses codepoints with more than 2 bytes?

Kanji, hiragana, katakana etc. At least 3 bytes with some 4-byte sequences. This compares unfavorably to for example Shift-JIS.

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