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cygx on May 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The WTF-8 encoding

The encoding that was designed to be fixed-width is called UCS-2. UTF-16 is its variable-length successor.

haberman on May 27, 2015 [–]

Thanks for the correction! I updated the post.

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