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Re:The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers... by bigDinosaur on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:32AM (#33814971)
Can you show some concrete instances of it being easier to work with compared to UTF-8? As far as I can see you gain variable length encoding (albeit in a potentially confusing way) while losing ASCII support and also not gaining the pure simplicity of UTF-32. Oh and also endianness, although personally that's probably never an issue I will run into.
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Re:The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers... by Mikhail_Edoshin on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:33AM (#33815393)
(Please see my reply to a sibling comment.)
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Re:The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers... by bigDinosaur on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:48AM (#33815556)
Perfect, thanks for the heads up!
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