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"text": "In UTF-8, the number of bytes used to write a character to a file depends on the Unicode code point.",
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"ref": "2020, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, 2nd edition, volume 1, No Starch Press, page 102",
"text": "Today, Unicode defines 1,112,064 code points, far exceeding the 2-byte capacity originally set aside for Unicode characters. A Unicode code point is simply an integer value that Unicode associates with a particular character symbol; you can think of it as the Unicode equivalent of the ASCII code for a character.",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "碼點"
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "码点"
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"word": "kodono"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "điểm mã"
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"code": "vi",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "碼點"
},
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "码点"
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "kodono"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "kodvorto"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "signonumero"
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "koodipaikka"
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
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"word": "point de code"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
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"word": "Codepoint"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
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"word": "Codepunkt"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "điểm mã"
},
{
"code": "vi",
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"sense": "numerical offset in a character set",
"word": "mã số"
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