if UTF-8 is so good how come there's no—
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in reply to @iliana's post:
sudden vibes of "M. Crispin, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time"
finally! something to do with those parity bits we never bothered to actually implement error correction hardware for ( this might be a personal problem but also it keeps happening lmao )
bummed it's just 8 bit payloads with a continuation bit, all the neat little tricks that make utf-8 a prefix-coded self-synchronizing encoding that sorts lexically are missing
from THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE
what nonet machine could POSSIBLY still be relevant in 2005???
yeah I opened this and pogged for exactly long enough to notice the publication date :(
It's my favorite AFD RFC just because while it may be a gag it's a perfectly reasonable technical proposal that could be implemented on a real 18- or 36-bit machine with little trouble, complete with reasonable sample code.