Honestly, I'm not fully comprehending the nature of your post. Could you give me the tweet-length summary?

> Each Unicode codepoint above 2047 is UTF-8 encoded as 3 bytes, so encoding such strings can potentially have a MIME'ed string be 4x as long as the $len of the original text string

Seems copacetic to me.


Well. At least I won lunch.
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