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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by fooster on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:29PM (#32534947)
Not to be contradictory, but unicode is not a specific encoding. ufc-8 is an encoding (with a non specific length) and utf-32 is an encoding of a Unicode code point with a specific length.
Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by happytoexplain on Saturday August 20, 2022 @09:25PM (#32536603)
Most people talking about characters in Unicode are referring to grapheme clusters, and I assume the parent is too, since they are in fact defined by Unicode and vary in length in all encodings, hence their answer of "no" to the GP.