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		pvorb on Feb 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How UTF-8 Works The compiler can raise a warning about bad characters. It can't detect all problems, but it certainly can help with some. It's not the type system, but many dynamic languages are interpreted instead of compiled.

dotancohen on Feb 9, 2022 [–]

Those bad characters are fed into the program long long after the compiler has done its job.

pvorb on Feb 9, 2022 | [–]

Not necessarily? I'm talking about constant string literals in source code which can be validated at compile time.

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