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Tell me the truth ... (europe.pub)

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[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Some old software does use 8-Bit ASCII for special/locale specific characters. Also there is this Unicode hack where the last bit is used to determine if the byte is part of a multi-byte sequence.