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jonhohle
1210 days ago
It will be a fun day when Unicode crosses the 5-byte UTF-8 encoding threshold :/
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otabdeveloper4
1210 days ago
It won't. We settled on using stateful combining characters instead. (Remember when the selling point of switching the world to Unicode was "represent all writing systems with a single stateless 16 bit encoding"? Yeah, well, lol.)
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bonsaibilly
1209 days ago
Anything beyond four bytes is composed of multiple code points, happily
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