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Re:How UTF-8 Works by dotancohen on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:09AM (#30270201)
Those bad characters are fed into the program long long after the compiler has done its job.
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Re:How UTF-8 Works by pvorb on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:06PM (#30279996)
Not necessarily? I'm talking about constant string literals in source code which can be validated at compile time.
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