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Re:Plain Text Doesn’t Exist: Unicode and encodings demystified by millstone on Monday August 26, 2013 @12:38PM (#6278101)
Right, there's still plenty of ways you can screw up a string. My point was merely that UTF-8 has one failure mode (invalid code units) that UTF-16 does not suffer from, and that has implications in encoding converters and APIs.
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