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		jeltz on July 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox Most languages designed today use UTF-8 so in those you should be able to iterate over the code points.

dbaupp on July 22, 2014 [–]

What do you mean by this? UTF-8 != iterating over codepoints (in fact, UTF-8 is the most complicated UTF encoding to iterate over codepoints).

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