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		markasoftware 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Algorithms for Modern Processor Architectures is this talk about apple? Regardless, lots of language runtimes still use utf16 (eg java, qt, haskell), and windows certainly still uses utf16.

zopa 4 months ago [–]

Nit, but if you're thinking of Haskell's text library, it's utf8 now: https://github.com/haskell/text/pull/365

markasoftware 4 months ago | [–]

oh wow, I remember reading a blog post about how this effort wasn't going well a while ago. I guess it got through in the end!

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