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Re:An Urgent Notice from AssemblyScript by TeaVMFan on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:11AM (#27946637)
This seems to also impact Java and TeaVM, see this post:

https://groups.google.com/g/teavm/c/gpy0JoKYqbU

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Re:An Urgent Notice from AssemblyScript by trusktr on Sunday July 25, 2021 @05:31PM (#27953101)
Yep, it will impact any language with WTF-16. Those languages may incur a performance hit if the vote passes to not support "expressive UTF-16", but more notably, there will be data integrity issues that can lead to security issues.
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