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Re:Make JDK source code UTF-8 by astrange on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:21AM (#34979343)
Parent post says

> spans with their own encoding.

so yes it is about pages with multiple encodings. A span's smaller than a page!

The Unicode answer is "variation selectors" which are used for some historical variant kanji, but not for whole language switching. I suppose they could be used for that too though.

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