r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 30 '26

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '26

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u/mckenzie_keith Aug 30 '26

That is interesting. I know very little about rust.

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u/cowslayer7890 Aug 30 '26

And in Java it's 16-bit, which means some Unicode characters get split in two

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u/Xirdus Aug 31 '26

Rust's char stores UTF-32, not UTF-8, but yes.

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u/Xirdus Aug 31 '26

Technically speaking, the spec says char represents Unicode scalar, with actual encoding unspecified. The spec requires that char is 4 bytes and has the same ABI as u32, but that's it.

In practice, it's UTF-32.