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Re: binary vs non-binary ports

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Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote:
> Could be, but that still leaves the trouble of decoding up to 6 byte
> UTF8 encodings.

Note that UTF-8 characters are never more than 4 bytes long. While the
encoding would hypothetically use 6 bytes for a 32-bit character,
Unicode characters are never more than 21 bits wide.
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