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RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

2 zdw 1 8/23/2025, 3:26:20 AM tbray.org ↗

Comments (1)

bediger4000 · 5h ago

> To understand, you’d have to learn how Unicode’s much-detested UTF-16 encoding works. I recommend not bothering.

Didn't Microsoft push UTF-16 for a long while? Java strings are UTF-16. Seems like Tim Bray is on the right track.