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Update: Sorry, shouldn't have replied. The parent is completely off topic, and so is this post.

Of course 'utf8' will be confused with 'UTF-8'.

Duh, that's why I told you not to confuse them. 'int72' has been used as a less confusing name.

Numbers are not characters. They are just numbers.

Except we just agreed that characters are just numbers. Either way, the terminology has nothing to do with why overflows result in warnings or errors.

Even in the standard you keep (mis)quoting:

I didn't quote any standard. Definitely not Unicode, seeing as I keep pointing out that Unicode is not involved here. You've stopped making sense, Bye.

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