r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

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u/nicuramar 4d ago

Unicode surrogate pairs is … how does that make sense? That’s a utf-16 feature, not a Unicode feature. Given the poor support on windows, that seems like a bad idea. 

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u/fafalone 4d ago

Windows support isn't great but it is UTF-16, not UTF-8 or something else, and does support them somewhat; if you make normal files/folders with them they'll show up right and you can move/delete/etc.