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		gpvos 78 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes i... MS could easily have added proper UTF-8 support in the early 2000s instead of the late 2010s.

kstrauser 78 days ago [–]

Yep. It would've been a better landing pad than UTF-16 since they had to migrate off UCS-2 anyway.

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