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Re: [hybi] Multiplexing in WebSocket

Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Sat, 24 October 2009 18:21 UTC

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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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Greg Wilkins wrote:
> * UTF-16 for those that can't deal with the uncertainty and/or
>   unpredictability of the length of a UTF-8 string

Careful.  UTF-16 is a variable length encoding too.

It is possibly worse than UTF-8 for this, because everyone knows that
UTF-8 is variable length, but many people seem to think UTF-16 is not.

-- Jamie

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