Of possible interest: fast UTF8 validation

[Ethan]

On Thursday, 17 May 2018 at 17:26:04 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> TCP being  reliable just plain doesn’t cut it. Corruption of
> single bit is very real.

Quoting to highlight and agree.

TCP is reliable because it resends dropped packets and delivers 
them in order.

I don't write TCP packets to my long-term storage medium.

UTF as a transportation protocol Unicode is *far* more useful 
than just sending across a network.