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by marssaxman 3743 days ago
I think about this every time I write a UTF-8 decoder. It's a task which is simple enough that I can bang it out from scratch about as fast as I can find a library that does it, so I can't really stomach adding a full-blown dependency to deal with it - but it's also just complex enough that I have to think about it, write some tests to make sure I didn't forget something, and wonder whether this implementation is any different from the last one I wrote.
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I have 'tools' repository on my local gitolite server just for that. Saved a lot of time already.