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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 01:25:37 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 27 May 2024 19:09:51 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> According to EricP  <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com>:
>>
>> One could have instructions that make it easier to parse the variable
>> length UTF-8 sequences into codepoints.
> 
> That would be the CU14 instruction on zSeries, to turn UTF-8 into
> UTF-32. CU41 goes the other way.

What is the point, in this day and age, of having special machine 
instructions to convert character encodings?