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I wish this comment was true, but due to a foolish attempt to squish all human charactets to 2 bytes as UCS (that failed and turned into the ugly UTF-16 mess), a disaster called Han Unification was unleashed upon the world, and now out-of-band communication is required to render the correct Han characters in a page and not offend people.


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