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Or also a whole group of characters, like the ffi-ligature. So, there is an n-m relationship between characters and codepoints. Well, depending on which of the many definitions of "character" you deign to use, don't forget to say.

Deduplicator
– Deduplicator

2018-07-24 15:51:10 +00:00
Commented Jul 24, 2018 at 15:51
Note that UTF-32 also comes in big-endian and little-endian versions. UTF-16 is no worse than UTF-32 in that regard. UTF-8 is the only encoding here that does not have to worry about endianness (at least until 4-bit computers see a massive resurgence in popularity...)

8bittree
– 8bittree

2018-07-25 16:53:01 +00:00
Commented Jul 25, 2018 at 16:53

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