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		hwc on March 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emoji.length == 2 How can that entire article never mention the term UTF-16?

Retr0spectrum on March 10, 2017 [–]

Why should it? Other than for explaining why the abomination of surrogate pairs came into existence.

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