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Clarification on parent: One of the best parts about UTF-8 is that ASCII text is also valid UTF-8-encoded text.

• pmjordan 18y ago
  Sorry, I kind of assumed that the HN crowd would know this. (judging by the comments - maybe the silent, lurking masses don't, I don't know) I've read a few too many articles with glaring mistakes today. If you're reading this, are even vaguely technically inclined and don't know what we're talking about, please read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
  • mullr 18y ago
    The fact that this is so often gotten wrong by very smart people (in my experience) that I think we should consider it a design defect.
    • mullr 18y ago
      To be clear: Unicode v.s. specific encoding terminology is my gripe. The 'UTF-8 is ascii at the bottom' is quite cool.