From 1df3566997535ab563b5fa76724a8c6c55b96483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Brinkmeier <brinkmeier@meqo.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:19:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] UTF-63: Snd version

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 blog/utf63/index.html | 18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/blog/utf63/index.html b/blog/utf63/index.html
index 341b5dd..5bce5c6 100644
--- a/blog/utf63/index.html
+++ b/blog/utf63/index.html
@@ -15,11 +15,10 @@
       By <a rel="author" href="../..">Paul Brinkmeier</a>
     </address>
     <p>
-      UTF-8 is almost everywhere these days.
-      The web runs on it, most common file formats use it, macOS, Linux and increasingly even Windows systems use it as the default option.
+      <a href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/core-spec/chapter-2/#G11165">UTF-8</a> is almost everywhere these days.
+      The Internet runs on it, most common file formats use it, macOS, Linux and increasingly even Windows systems use it as the default option.
       It makes sense: It's quite compact for mostly-ASCII text and therefore most keywords and symbols of text-based file formats and protocols.
     </p>
-
     <p>
       What if I told you that in this age of memory bandwidth-constrained workloads you are using a wasteful encoding for text storage?
       Most text these days is 99% ASCII with a few emoji sprinkled in (source: Made it up).
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@
       Even if we ignore the costly multibyte emoji encodings, using UTF-8, 1 out of every 8 bits of memory is wasted on the encoding, because 7-bit ASCII characters are encoded using a whole byte, i.e. we have an encoding overhead of roughly 15%.
     </p>
     <p>
-      For example, consider the UTF-8 encoding of the string “🙈🙉🙊 encoding” (see <a href="https://utoy.beany.club/text/🙈🙉🙊 encoding" title="also cURLable!">here</a> for codepoints):
+      For example, consider the UTF-8 encoding of the string “🙈🙉🙊 encoding” (see <a href="https://utoy.beany.club/text/🙈🙉🙊 encoding" title="also cURLable!">here</a> for code points):
     </p>
     <pre>11110<span class="red2">000</span>10<span class="red2">011111</span>10<span class="red2">011001</span>10<span class="red2">001000</span>  <span class="red2">🙈</span>
 11110<span class="orange2">000</span>10<span class="orange2">011111</span>10<span class="orange2">011001</span>10<span class="orange2">001001</span>  <span class="orange2">🙉</span>
@@ -43,9 +42,9 @@
       And even for good old reliable ASCII, useless bits are sprinkled here and there.
       There's gotta be a better way!
     </p>
-    <h2>UTF-63</h2>
+    <h2>A Better Way</h2>
     <p>
-      Enter: An entirely new way to encode Unicode!
+      Enter: UTF-63, an entirely new way to encode Unicode!
     </p>
     <pre>1<span class="red2">000011111011001001000</span><span class="orange2">0000111110</span>  <span class="red2">🙈</span><span class="orange2">🙉</span>
 <span class="orange2">11001001001</span><span class="yellow2">000011111011001001010</span>  <span class="yellow2">🙊</span>
@@ -58,8 +57,8 @@
     <p>
       Decoding is dead simple:
       We consider each set of 8 bytes a Big Endian 64-bit code unit.
-      If the most significant bit is 0, the other 63 bits contain nine Basic Latin characters (i.e. ASCII characters) at 7 bits each.
-      If it's 1, they contain any three Unicode code points at 21 bits each (the maximum codepoint is U+10FFFF).
+      If the most significant bit is 0, the other 63 bits contain nine Basic Latin code points (ASCII characters) at 7 bits each.
+      If it's 1, the other 63 bits contain any three Unicode code points at 21 bits each (the maximum code point is U+10FFFF).
       When any of the encoded code points is U+0000 NULL, the string ends there (yes, we're bringing null-terminated strings back. So. many. applications. don't allow NULL anyways).
     </p>
     <h2>Usage</h2>
@@ -69,6 +68,9 @@
       It wouldn't surprise me if VLC supported UTF-63 subtitles or something though.
       You can do your part by spreading the word among friends, family, flatmates, coworkers and anybody in between.
     </p>
+    <p>
+      If you enjoyed my Unicode ramblings you can read on over at <a href="https://www.channable.com/tech/so-long-surrogatesa">Channable</a>.
+    </p>
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