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UTF-8 is already much better than the legacy double-byte encodings (Big5, GB2312, Shift-JIS etc etc) because, at least you can tell from any byte whether it is
by spacehunt 13y ago
UTF-8 is already much better than the legacy double-byte encodings (Big5, GB2312, Shift-JIS etc etc) because, at least you can tell from any byte whether it is supposed to be a part of a code sequence, without having to start all the way from the beginning of the string.