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Re:Emojis paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere by innocenat on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:05AM (#25133961)
> thought they were being smart when building their Unicode support on UCS-2, and now here we are.

Not sure what you mean by 'being smart' when all of those were released before Unicode 2.0.

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Re:Emojis paved the way for UTF-8 everywhere by lokedhs on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:02AM (#25137479)
I said they thought they were smart. I'm not going to judge whether it actually was smart based on the situation then.

That said, UTF-8 was already 4 years old by the time Java came out. Surrogate pairs was added to Unicode in 1996, one year prior to the release of Java.

I joined Sun Microsystems around that time, and Unicode really wasn't a thing in the Solaris world for a few more years, so the fact that people wasn't aggressively pushing good Unicode support at the time is understandable. People just didn't have much experience with it.

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