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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:27:24 -0700
From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] UTF-8 criticism?
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utf-8 is an exchange format and that's mostly how it's used.
the few programs that do any analysis on utf-8 in memory
do so usually as a side effect of whatever else is going on.
for instance, they might call cleanname() or some other
such file name-processing routine.

his criticisms are on target but building utf-8 routines is
not intellectually challenging, nor is it a big job.

in short, it doesn't really matter.

-rob