How ASCII lost and unicode won

Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by stuartcw on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:54AM (#6012387)

It's not a matter of winning or loosing. The pre-unicode mix of character sets was a mess when it came internationalization. Try truncating a Japanese Shift-JIS string in C. That will learn you..

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Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by ygra on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @09:00AM (#6012404)

Arguably Unicode (UTF-8 and -16) doesn't necessarily make this any easier. Or any variable-length encoding, really. You see halved code points quite frequently, and if not that, then halved " and the like.

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