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Exa's Corner
Personal blog · unascribed.com/bprogrammingsystems
Exa's Corner is a personal blog at unascribed.com about programming and systems. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Exa's Corner for posts on text encoding history, including the UCS-2 implementation in Windows and why Rust strings are hard. The comments mainly cite these posts for their dates and facts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /b/2019-08-02-the-tragedy-of-ucs2.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-29
What Hacker News says?
Note that UTF-8 hadn't actually been invented at the time UCS-2 was implemented in Windows: https://unascribed.com/b/2019-08-02-the-tragedy-of-ucs2.html
Comment linking /b/2019-08-02-the-tragedy-of-ucs2.html
on “I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride”Submitted The Tragedy of UCS-2 as a story · 208 points
HN discussionCorrection to the date and timeline. UTF-8 has been the correct choice since: " >From ken Tue Sep 8 03:22:07 EDT 1992 " As discussed last week in the quoted history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26735958 of UTF-8's mail messages: https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history It appears that Unicode arose between 1990 and 1991 for the initial versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Coded_Character_Set…
Comment linking /b/2019-08-02-the-tragedy-of-ucs2.html
on “Why Rust strings seem hard”Submitted Welon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted To Audio and Back Again as a story · 1 points
HN discussion