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qalmakka
on June 12, 2023
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UTF-21, a toy character encoding
This is ALWAYS broken on unicode. It only makes sense in ASCII and with alphabets similar to the Latin alphabet.
Dylan16807
on June 12, 2023
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It's not broken if "character" means "extended grapheme cluster".
Though in that case it makes it very hard to index the column.
qalmakka
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Nobody cares about them, I am afraid. Most people _really_ can't accept that you can't work on Unicode like you did with ASCII, and do not want to let go of their old C habits (like iterating char by char and doing something).
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