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>A while back I saw a guy name his windows desktop with an emoji and all sorts of software fell over.

Presumably all of it was written in languages built on old assumptions that a single character is one byte.

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Or even that a character fits in 2 bytes, which is an easy mistake to make in languages like Java or C# that have a 16-bit `char` type

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Or even that a character fits in 2 bytes, which is an easy mistake to make in languages like Java or C# that have a 16-bit `char` type

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