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> There are many reasons why UTF-8 is a better encoding but UTF-16 does at least have the benefit of being simpler. Big endian or little endian?
by nwallin 5y ago
> There are many reasons why UTF-8 is a better encoding but UTF-16 does at least have the benefit of being simpler.
Big endian or little endian?
- ts4z 5y agoAnd did they handle surrogate pairs correctly? My team managed a system that did a read from user data, doing input validation. One day we got a smart quote character that happened to be > U+10000. But because the data validation happened in chunks, we only got half of it. Which was an invalid character, so input validation failed. In UTF-8, partial characters happen so often, they're likely to get tested. In UTF-16, they are more rarely seen, so things work until someone pastes in emoji and then it falls apart.
- cryptonector 5y agoLOL