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What limitation will we face if each user-perceived character is assigned to one codepoint?
it's because back in the olden days a unit of data was 8 bits, the widespread 32-bit architecture is younger than the old ASCII standard on which the UTF variants are based (for backwards compatibilit …
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Why does UTF-8 waste several bits in its encoding
The official way lets the decoder know when it's in the middle of the tuple and it knows to skip bytes (or go backwards) until the byte starts with 0 or 11; this prevents garbage values when a single …
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Is the carriage-return char considered obsolete
There is a good practice where you are "liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send".
In other words, if there is a chance (however small it will be) that someone will give you a cr …
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