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   by unascribed 7y ago

   Wasn't really expecting this post to leave my circles, sure am glad now I checked my sources. Look, ma, I'm on Hacker News!
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   by unascribed 7y ago

   I would've mentioned this in my post but didn't feel I could do the topic justice as I'm not submersed in it like I am the UTF-16 tragedy. This is indeed an important aside, though.
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   by unascribed 7y ago

   I've personally done this in Java, as mentioned. Generally I use fastutil to create an IntList (which is just an int[] with some conveniences) and use Java's Character class to convert between UTF-16 and UCS-4 on-the-fly. It'
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   by unascribed 7y ago

   Yes, that was the intent. C itself obviously just sees chars as a number, but in C itself strings have no real meaning at all. The fact the kernel treats them as opaque byte sequences is the important part.
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   by unascribed 7y ago

   This year is mentioned on the Wikipedia page and its references as the sort of "genesis date" of all the companies' involvement and is more or less when the UCS-2 tragedy began. (This is a post specifically about UTF-16 and U