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		fanf2 on July 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: strcpy: A niche function you don't need What makes it incompatible with UTF-8?

colejohnson66 on July 31, 2021 [–]

Normally, UTF-8 works with C strings no problem, but it's possible that a multi-byte UTF-8 encoded codepoint is only halfway copied when it reaches the capacity and throws the NULL at the end.

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