On 12/18/25 14:16, Rob Pike wrote:
> It was written for UTF (sic), not UTF-8, which was non-synchronizable and 
> therefore ambiguous so care needed to be taken when looking for byte 
> sequences. It stayed around after that. It may not be necessary, although 
> without checking I can't say whether it behaves the same as strstr when 
> illegal UTF-8 encodings occur.
> 

Thanks! That makes sense.


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