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Representing symbols, characters and letters that are used worldwide is no mean feat, but unicode managed it - how? Tom Scott explains how the web has settled on a standard.
Last week, I made up a basic TCP server in Python, to receive log lines. To split log lines, I used the ascii line feed ascii character : \n aka 0xa in hexadecimal.
But then I wondered : could this byte appear elsewhere in the UTF8-encoded strings of text I was sending …