Is there any historical reference describing the pre-UTF-8 "FSS/UTF" proposal? @rob_pike @FakeUnicode
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I had someone ask about why sync property of UTF-8 is so important & wanted to contrast with old FSS/UTF to demonstrate benefit.
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Replying to @RichFelker @rob_pike
The pre-pre proposal only seems to have the one reference online, dug up by Rob: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt … This seems to be the source of the "History" section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History …pic.twitter.com/2cCw2vwnEc
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Replying to @FakeUnicode @rob_pike
Ah, so continuation bytes could reuse head bytes, thereby allowing N-byte chars to be substrings of M-byte chars for M>N>1.
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This is worse than lack of synchonization; it means strstr doesn't work & character-aware variant can't be made efficient.
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