Planted Seeds - Unicode Transcoding in 2021
A report on our efforts to fix Unicode Transcoding functionality at the bottom of the tech stack.
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My name is Shepherd, and I have recently taken an interest in helping out ThePhD’s Unicode work for C++. The end goal of being able to transcode out of the system encoding and other shenanigans has not been fully realized in a Standard’s document. However, I am pleased to say we have made significant advancements that should make 2021 a successful year for Unicode capabilities in C and C++.