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Re:Fast UTF-8 validation by ben509 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:02PM (#24843586)
It's not very sporting to rule out making things fit as a use case for measuring something.

Even measuring the width of rendered text is done to make it fit some layout.

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Re:Fast UTF-8 validation by naniwaduni on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:36AM (#24845296)
The width of rendered text is not measured in codepoints.
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