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strcpy: A niche function you don't need
What makes it incompatible with UTF-8?
colejohnson66
on July 31, 2021
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Normally, UTF-8 works with C strings no problem, but it's possible that a multi-byte UTF-8 encoded codepoint is only halfway copied when it reaches the capacity and throws the NULL at the end.
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