Gregory's Server@ramsey @jkt @simevidas bytes assume an encoding. Codepoints vs. grapheme clusters is the distinction in experience, I guess.
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@ramsey @jkt @simevidas yes, but working on bytes means that the encoding has to be carried thorough the different layers and might cut utf-8 sequences apart (assuming utf-8 being the default encoding) With either codepoints or grapheme clusters you at least get some valid (while not always sensible) result. |
@johannes @jkt @simevidas I thought it would be the other way around. The same grouping of bytes could represent different codepoints, based on the encoding.