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		TazeTSchnitzel on May 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The WTF-8 encoding Why this over, say, CESU-8? Compatibility with UTF-8 systems, I guess?

i80and on May 27, 2015 [–]

According to the article, they wanted a superset of UTF-8, which CESU-8 is not. https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/#cesu-8

SimonSapin on May 27, 2015 | [–]

Yes. For example, this allows the Rust standard library to convert &str (UTF-8) to &std::ffi::OsStr (WTF-8 on Windows) without converting or even copying data.

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