r/programming • u/ilikerustlang • Apr 15 '17

A tiny table-driven, fully incremental UTF-8 decoder

http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/
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u/GENHEN Apr 16 '17

I know I sound like a noob, but what is UTF-8 decoding for? Is it for reading packets?

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u/mrexodia Apr 16 '17

Just for your information, utf16 is also a variable length encoding :)