The Wonderfully Terrible World of C and C++ Encoding APIs (with Some Rust)

Last time we talked about encodings, we went in with a C++-like design where we proved that so long as you implement the required operations on a single encoding type, you can go between any two encodings on the planet. This meant you didn’t need to specifically write an e.g. SHIFT-JIS-to-UTF-8 or UTF-EBCDIC-to-Big5-HKSCS pairwise function, it Just Worked™ as long as you had some common pivot betw

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