Re:Rust 1.53
by dwheeler on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:36PM
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> Why would they deliberately put duplicates in unicode though?
IIRC, to enable adoption. Many of the codepoints were adopted from other encoding systems, and it was often useful to support 2-way conversions without loss while Unicode was being adopted.
What's a "duplicate" is also sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
IIRC, to enable adoption. Many of the codepoints were adopted from other encoding systems, and it was often useful to support 2-way conversions without loss while Unicode was being adopted.
What's a "duplicate" is also sometimes in the eye of the beholder.