Why do some individuals, who may not fully understand the complexities of computer science, seem to have such admiration for UTF-8? It's essentially a form of unary encoding. While they often attribute the invention of it to Dennis M. Ritchie as if it were an extraordinary feat, I personally don't see its groundbreaking nature.
thanks for your input, mr nobody
Given before utf8 you had 8bit code pages and ucs2/utf16, I think you're simplifying the implementation.
>>106578643Any valid ascii is a valid utf-8 encoding, and any utf-8 containing only ascii characters is a valid ascii encodingThat in itself is pretty ingenious. Things went south when emoji characters were being added, but that's a zoomer problem
>>106578643If you ever had to deal with wide chars and had to convert between different encodings you know why utf8 is so great.
Probably the most ingenious encoding scheme.
>>106578643They read a shitty blog post that was linked on orange reddit praising utf-8 so they jerk themselves raw over it, despite half of the stated "facts" are flat out wrong.
