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What? No. ASCII is a 7-bit encoding: only bytes with the top-bit zero are valid ASCII, and all of those bytes represent exactly the same character in UTF-8. U
by caf 10y ago
What? No. ASCII is a 7-bit encoding: only bytes with the top-bit zero are valid ASCII, and all of those bytes represent exactly the same character in UTF-8. UTF-8 is a strict superset of ASCII and this is not by accident.