[Data-modeling] Writing UTF-8 in MQL strings

[Christopher R. Maden]

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Kurt Bollacker wrote:
> I've been writing language data to sandbox, and I'm trying to create
> names for languages that use UTF-8 characters.  Consider the "More"
> language at: 

No, they use Unicode characters.

UTF-8 is a way of representing those characters as a series of bytes.

In JSON, characters should be encoded with their Unicode code points,
not as byte-wise representations.

The string you are looking for is “Mòoré” or “M\u00f2or\u00e9.”  The “u”
in “\u” stands for “Unicode.”

It happens that the first 256 characters of Unicode are identical to the
first (and total) 256 characters of ISO Latin 1, which may have confused
you.  However, the Latin 1 representations are the correct ones, as they
are also the Unicode representations.

HTH,
Chris
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