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Re:How UTF-8 Works by nwallin on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:51PM (#30264521)
Note that the asterisk in `UTF-16*` is a really big asterisk. I fixed a UCS-16 bug last week at my day job.
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Re:How UTF-8 Works by WorldMaker on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:53PM (#30267143)
Yeah, there's sometimes a lot more hacks like WTF-8 and WTF-16 in practice on UCS-2 originally systems (including Windows and JS) than is healthy: https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
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