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Re:Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta by burntsushi on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @08:19PM (#32258900)
Those are locales. I've never heard them referred to as "codecs."

In any case, I'd still like to see a grep whose inner loop is written in Assembly. :-)

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Re:Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta by int_19h on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @09:03PM (#32259205)
"en_US.UTF-8" is a locale. The "UTF-8" part is the encoding of that locale. Codec would be whatever piece of code parses the encoding.
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