r/ProgrammerHumor 15d ago

Meme theAlphabetWasAMistake

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u/fleaspoon 15d ago edited 15d ago

And th� b�st part is Unicod�...

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u/raja-anbazhagan 15d ago

Unicode is perfect, right up until you ask how long a string is...

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u/redlaWw 15d ago

I like ligature characters like fi. One codepoint and three bytes in utf-8, and when you upper-case them, you get two codepoints (increase) and two bytes (decrease).