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jasonhansel on Oct 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++ still isn't cutting it

Another, perhaps more important difference: the Rust version converts to lowercase in a Unicode-safe way, whereas the C++ version really can't work for multibyte character encodings.

account42 on Oct 21, 2020 [–]

There is no such thing as converting to lowercase in a Unicode-safe way. Or rather, there are many ways.

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