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Are you still working on this @meatball133? I would be happy to help if you want any. |
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Hi @vaeng 👋🏽 Thank you for your interest. 😄 The open PRs here are drafts of work that have been pre-agreed. @meatball133 and I are still working through them. Overall, wider community contributions have been paused for this track until at least May/June. But if you have issues or proposals, we will be happy to discuss them in the exercism forum. |
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| - **ASCII** can encode English language characters. | ||
| All characters are precisely 1 byte long. | ||
| - **UTF-8** is a Unicode text encoding. |
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| - **UTF-8** is a Unicode text encoding. | |
| - **UTF-8** is a variable-length Unicode text encoding. |
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| All characters are precisely 1 byte long. | ||
| - **UTF-8** is a Unicode text encoding. | ||
| Characters take between 1 and 4 bytes. | ||
| - **UTF-16** is a Unicode text encoding. |
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| - **UTF-16** is also a variable-length Unicode text encoding. |
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| - **UTF-16** is a Unicode text encoding. | ||
| Characters are either 2 or 4 bytes long. | ||
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| UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both Unicode encodings which means they're capable of representing a massive range of characters including: |
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| UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both Unicode encodings which means they're capable of representing a massive range of characters including: | |
| UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both capable of representing a massive range of reader-perceived 'characters' or [graphemes][grapheme] including: |
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| Consider the letter 'a' and the emoji '😛'. | ||
| In UTF-16 the letter takes 2 bytes but the emoji takes 4 bytes. | ||
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| The trick to this exercise is to use APIs designed around Unicode characters (codepoints) instead of Unicode codeunits. |
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| The trick to this exercise is to use APIs designed around Unicode characters (codepoints) instead of Unicode codeunits. | |
| The trick to this exercise is to use APIs designed around Unicode characters (codepoints) instead of Unicode codeunits. | |
| [grapheme]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/grapheme |
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| - Text in most of the world's languages and scripts | ||
| - Historic text | ||
| - Emoji |
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| - Symbols used in Physics and Mathematics |
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| UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both variable length encodings, which means that different characters take up different amounts of space. |
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| UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both variable length encodings, which means that different characters take up different amounts of space. | |
| UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both variable length encodings, which means that different graphemes can take up different amounts of space. |
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| "blurb": "Given a Unicode input string, truncate it to 5 grapheme clusters.", |
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