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Re:How UTF-8 Works by tialaramex on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:33PM (#30267489)
One of my friends is these days a colleague, with an utterly ordinary English name but his identity management data is full of spurious accents to check APIs do the Right Thing™.

I was delighted recently to stumble on a history of modern women course HIST1158 named Liberté Egalité Beyoncé and I immediately thought two things: 1. Why are our Computer Science courses given unimaginative names? and 2. What a useful test input, I bet some of our systems don't work correctly for this input even though an acute accent is hardly a bleeding edge feature.

I haven't been able to interest any Computer Science professors in fun names for their courses, but I was able in my test environment to name a COMP series course "Untitled Course Name" with a description explaining that "It is a lovely day in the village and there are only two hard problems in Computer Science".

Re:How UTF-8 Works by bear8642 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:24PM (#30267905)
>only two hard problems in Computer Science".

You mean cache invalidation and naming things? :)

Re:How UTF-8 Works by mark-r on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:10PM (#30268265)
And off-by-one errors.
Re:How UTF-8 Works by kergonath on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @07:26AM (#30271833)
2 just means that the counter overflowed.