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UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

134 points · 122 comments · vismit2000

  1. snvzz · · focus · HN ↗
    No project is ever safe from complicators.

    This is why we need the KISS enforcers.

    1. flohofwoe · · focus · HN ↗
      But the nice thing about UTF-8 is that this proposal isn't really a "complication", but a minimal and natural extension of the original idea to allow more than one lead byte.
      1. entrope · · focus · HN ↗
        Allowing more than one lead byte is a complication of the existing standard. As many others have pointed out, we have plenty of coding space without that (e.g. by allowing 5- and 6-byte UTF-8 again), so the case for the extra complexity is currently not compelling.
      2. snvzz · · focus · HN ↗
        It starts like this, and ends up like x86.
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