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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by kijin on Sunday April 29, 2012 @07:46PM (#3907487)
No it isn't. Any letter with an accent will take up two bytes. Most non-Latin characters take up three bytes, sometimes even four.
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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by ori_b on Monday April 30, 2012 @09:08AM (#3909036)
Poorly phrased. It can take multiple bytes to fully define one codepoint, but the encoding is defined in terms of a stream of single bytes. In other words, each unit is one byte, hence flipping each unit gives back the same unit.

This is not the case for UTF-16 and UTF-32.

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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by ybungalobill on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @03:28AM (#3913375)
AFAIK the correct term is "byte oriented".
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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by Tloewald on Sunday April 29, 2012 @09:47PM (#3907687)
Yes but those two bytes will be in the same order regardless of the endianness of the system.
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