Apparently the extent of UTF-8's amazingness still isn't widely know. Today on #musl some1 asked to confirm mb chars never have ASCII bytes.
Yes, once you weigh all the pros and cons, I agree it's a feature. But in my experience it's hard for ppl to accept it at first.
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I'm probably biased because I've written auto-detectors for various binary formats. When a format accepts all bit patterns, it's a pain.
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With regard to auto-detection, the best part about UTF-8 is that false positives are extremely rare.
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