Name: Anonymous 2010-01-14 12:13
So, I cracked open another programming book today (have stay current with the bullshit universities are filling programmers with these days) and saw something I detest. It's a lower level book with a focus on MIPS, and it's going through data size, and I see: "16-bit (Unicode character or half word)". Having written code to transform a codepoint sequence between UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, it slightly bothers me to see this. While I realize that there are very few instances when codepoints outside of the BMP are encountered, the BMP is still not all of Unicode. You need at least 21 bits to encode any Unicode codepoint. Should we really lie to children do to how complex the truth really is?
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So
[spoiler]/prog/[/spoiler], what are your pet peeves?