I saw this blog post a while ago A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode, a really great write up that is a worth a read for anyone interested in the subject! So go ahead and read that now even as it might not be super important for what I am about to write about here :)
Reading this reminded me of an old project of mine that I think is a bit novel and deserves, at least, a write up. I am talking about utf8_lookup, a small lib to translate utf8 chars into offsets into a table.
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