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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is it because of the lower case Latin æ since it’s technically one character even if two bytes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

What a mess… sounds like the devs got burned by various Unicode edge cases RTL, etc