> Of course one has to mention the downside of UTF-8 which is that it can
be a royal pain in the ass to do parsing in.
Why? UTF-8 is not these brain-damaged Windows MBCS “ANSI” encodings.
The UTF-8 trailing bytes are always >= 128, and the usual separator characters interesting for parser are all < 128.
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Maxim S. Shatskih
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