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Re:☃ by aaronsw on Sunday October 12, 2008 @03:02PM (#330438)
That's the beauty of UTF-8.
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Re:☃ by jrockway on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:42AM (#330863)
Until you treat the string as a list of characters instead of as a list of octets. Then you corrupt your data horribly.
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Re:☃ by aaronsw on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:38PM (#331416)
That's the horror of UTF-8.
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