First Impressions!

[Patrick Schluter]

On Friday, 1 December 2017 at 06:07:07 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 19:37:47 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 11/30/17 1:20 PM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> iopipe handles this: 
>> http://schveiguy.github.io/iopipe/iopipe/textpipe/ensureDecodeable.html
>>
>
> It was only to give an example. With UTF-8 people who implement 
> the low level code in general think about the multiple 
> codeunits at the buffer boundary. With UTF-16 it's often 
> forgotten. In UTF-16 there are also 2 other common pitfalls, 
> that exist also in UTF-8 but are less consciously acknowledged, 
> overlong encoding and isolated codepoints. So UTF-16 has the

I meant isolated code-units, of course.

> same issues as UTF-8, plus some more, endianness and size.