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Re:UCS vs. UTF-8 as Internal String Encoding by colanderman on Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:12AM (#9618691)
You might be interested in the Supercombiner: http://sbp.so/supercombiner
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Re:UCS vs. UTF-8 as Internal String Encoding by Aardwolf on Thursday May 28, 2015 @11:38AM (#9618868)
What language uses that many diacritics tho? Unicode is supposed to support all written languages - supporting a u with 100 diacritics seems beyond that scope :)
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Re:UCS vs. UTF-8 as Internal String Encoding by colanderman on Thursday May 28, 2015 @01:40PM (#9619763)
Mathematics. Not 100, but symbols are often decorated with 3 diacritics or so. That's a lot to cram into one fixed-size word.
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