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It's not wrong that "?".length == 7
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A Programmer's Introduction to Unicode - Nathan Reed's coding blog
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| | Pixels and polygons and shaders, oh my!
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Fifty years of strings: Language design and the string datatype |
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Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points - In Pursuit of Laziness
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| | Update: This post got a sequel, Breaking our latin-1 assumptions. I've seen misconceptions about Unicode crop up regularly in posts discussing it. ...
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UTF-8 and Kim
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| [AI summary] An article proposing a new 21-bit character encoding called Kim that is more efficient than UTF-8 for many scripts while sacrificing its sorting property.