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UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

134 points · 122 comments · vismit2000

  1. stbenjam · · focus · HN ↗
    > No special cases introduced. All properties preserved.

    I don’t actually know if this is LLM-generated, but phrasing like this is weirdly triggering to me now

    1. account42 · · focus · HN ↗
      It's not even true as being able to tell the character length from the first byte is not a property that extending UTF-8 past 36 bit payloads preserves.
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