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From: lbrt chx _ gemale
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Subject: number of bytes for each (uni)code point while using utf-8 as encoding ...
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 I obviously and I would say -very clearly- meant a -file's encoding- is either incorrectly set by authors or is corrupted in transit. (I never said anything about failing disks ...)
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 Sometimes we technical people sound like lawyers/politicians trying to correct peoples' minds and/or trying to prove something to one self
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 What I asked is an entirely technical question, namely; how to get the length of the sequence of bytes defining a code point
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 lbrtchx