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0 pointsasdfaoeu14y ago0 comments

UTF-8 still has all the characters UTF-16 does it just uses more bytes to encode them. UTF-8 makes more sense if most of your characters can be represented in 8 bits.

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ealloc14y ago

you can encode all characters in the basic multilingual plane with a single utf-16 code unit, while in utf-8 BMP characters have variable lengths from 1 to 3 bytes.

If Notch only allows BMP characters and uses utf-16, internationalized string maniulation is very easy, as easy as ASCII for kids to mess with.

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ealloc14y ago

you can encode all characters in the basic multilingual plane with a single utf-16 code unit, while in utf-8 BMP characters have variable lengths from 1 to 3 bytes.

If Notch only allows BMP characters and uses utf-16, internationalized string maniulation is very easy, as easy as ASCII for kids to mess with.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse