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Re:The UTF-8-Everywhere Manifesto by pjscott on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:15AM (#3908121)
> (Example: How many characters is "é"? "é"? "é"? Does UTF-16 give you a more useful answer to that question?)

In case anybody was wondering:

1. The first "é" is an "e" followed by a combining acute accent.

2. The second "é" is a single code point for a lowercase-e-with-acute.

3. The third "é" is the same as the second "é", but with a zero-width non-breaking space in front of it.

All of these are, of course, the same letter.

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