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		lloeki on Jan 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why can't you reverse a string with a flag emoji? Should it reverse a BOM as well or keep it first?

account42 on Jan 28, 2022 | [–]

Remove it since the BOM is a hack to deal with shitty transfer encodings (i.e. UTF-16LE vs. UTF-16BE) and useless for UTF-8.

Spivak on Jan 27, 2022 | [–]

Keep it first? Like that’s not a gotcha. Your input is a string and the output is that string visually reversed. What it looks like in memory is irrelevant.

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