Flüpkefluepke@chaos.social
Oct 26, 2026, 9:12 AM@niconiconi STOP DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE
* STRINGS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE ENCODING
* DECADES OF COMPUTER SCIENCE and they STILL CAN’T AGREE on what a STRING even IS
* strlen("🏳️⚧️") returns 1, 5, 6 or 16 depending on which PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE you ask
Statements dreamed up by the utterly DERANGED:
“Actually, it’s ONE grapheme cluster consisting of FIVE Unicode code points represented by SIX UTF-16 code units or 16 UTF-8 bytes”
They have played us for FOOLS!