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bartwe on April 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)

Was always a bit surprised that if you had the length encoding byte, that it didn't also imply an offset by the values that should have been encoded with a shorter sequence

Tuna-Fish on April 8, 2021 [–]

This is there to make decoding faster. I think it's a mistake.

tacitusarc on April 8, 2021 | [–]

The continuation bits also allow backwards traversal and proper null byte decoding.

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