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A comment on cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C. Parent comment

Re:cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C by dark-star on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:52PM (#36230551)
> There's no reason all the rest of your software needs to pay for Microsoft's mistake.

How is it a mistake when UTF was not even a thing when the NT kernel was developed?

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Re:cuneicode, and the Future of Text in C by tialaramex on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:16PM (#36230975)
Not every mistake is something you could have prevented/ avoided. Sometimes you just get unlucky.
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