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A comment on JEP254: proposal to represent Java Strings as ISO-8859-1. Parent comment

Re:JEP254: proposal to represent Java Strings as ISO-8859-1 by Hinrik on Friday May 15, 2015 @08:23AM (#9550103)
> The only well-known contemporary languages that get this (somewhat) right are Python 3, Ruby 1.9 and Swift, though ES6 is in process of getting up to speed too.

And Perl.

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Re:JEP254: proposal to represent Java Strings as ISO-8859-1 by pilif on Friday May 15, 2015 @08:33AM (#9550131)
You are right of course (I knew this as you can see when you look at the PDF I linked - slide 50). I have edited my original post.
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