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points by genxy 1 day ago | 0 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

> UTF-16 is used by the Windows API, and by many programming environments such as Java and Qt. The variable-length character of UTF-16, combined with the fact that most characters are not variable-length (so variable length is rarely tested), has led to many bugs in software, including in Windows itself.

[–] tredre3 1 day ago

Absolutely, UTF-16 is bad and inexcusable in most contexts. Perhaps you misinterpreted my comment or I wasn't expressing myself properly.

I was trying to say: If all the components in your stack are javascript-based, it makes sense that your RPC-API would also use UTF-16. It wasn't Microsoft pushing it for historical Windows reasons as GP implied, it was dictated by a JS stack they chose but didn't create.

[–] genxy 1 day ago

I understood, I was just providing context. Windows, JavaScript, Java are all UTF-16. 65k characters is all you need.

[–] noosphr 18 hours ago

I always thought the js libraries throwing emojies around was stupid.

Then I finally sat down to understand enough JS for LLM slop and the having rockets all over the place wasn't just cringe but the quickest way to show you handled utf 16.