3 points | by zdw 12 hours ago
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> To understand, you’d have to learn how Unicode’s much-detested UTF-16 encoding works. I recommend not bothering.
Didn't Microsoft push UTF-16 for a long while? Java strings are UTF-16. Seems like Tim Bray is on the right track.
> To understand, you’d have to learn how Unicode’s much-detested UTF-16 encoding works. I recommend not bothering.
Didn't Microsoft push UTF-16 for a long while? Java strings are UTF-16. Seems like Tim Bray is on the right track.