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By that metric, C can't represent ASCII correctly either, because there's no particular reason you couldn't have a NUL character somewhere inside a string.

• TeMPOraL 2y ago
  Indeed it can't. Many developers were bitten by this, and still are; plenty of critical bugs and security vulnerabilities rely on this quirk too.
  • account42 2y ago
    Technically, C can. It's just C strings that are limited.
    • pdpi 2y ago
      Sure, in the exact same way that C can handle unicode just fine too. The problem is, as always, C strings.