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rfc9839

Go-language library to check for problematic Unicode code points

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
29GitHub stars
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What it is

Go-language library to check for problematic Unicode code points

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-08-24 00:01:06 UTC to 2025-08-24 14:46:27 UTC.

012025-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 24, 00:002025-08-24 01:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 02:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 03:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 04:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 05:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 06:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 07:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 24, 07:002025-08-24 08:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 09:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 10:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 11:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 12:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 13:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-24 14:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-24 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 24, 14:00

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Aug 24, 00:002025-08-24 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 01:00:00 UTC101
Aug 24, 01:002025-08-24 01:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 02:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 02:002025-08-24 02:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 03:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 03:002025-08-24 03:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 04:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 04:002025-08-24 04:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 05:00:00 UTC000
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Aug 24, 07:002025-08-24 07:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 08:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 08:002025-08-24 08:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 09:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 09:002025-08-24 09:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 10:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 10:002025-08-24 10:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 11:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 11:002025-08-24 11:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 12:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 12:002025-08-24 12:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 13:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 13:002025-08-24 13:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 14:00:00 UTC000
Aug 24, 14:002025-08-24 14:00:00 UTC2025-08-24 15:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
https://github.com/timbray/RFC9839/blob/main/unichars.go I don't know rust at all but I can pretty quickly understand: var unicodeAssignables = []runePair{ {0x20, 0x7E}, // ASCII {0xA, 0xA}, // newline {0xA0, 0xD7FF}, // most of the BMP {0xE000, 0xFDCF}, // BMP after surrogates {0xFDF0, 0xFFFD}, // BMP after noncharacters block {0x9, 0x9}, // Tab {0xD, 0xD}, // CR {0x10000, 0x1FFFD}, // astral planes from here down {0x20000, 0x2FFFD}, {0x30000, 0x3FFFD}, {0x40000, 0x4FFFD}, {0x50000, 0x5FFFD}, {0x60000, 0x6FFFD}, {0x70000, 0x7FFFD}, {0x80000, 0x8FFFD}, {0x90000, 0x9FFFD}, {0xA0000, 0xAFFFD}, {0xB0000, 0xBFFFD}, {0xC0000, 0xCFFFD}, {0xD0000, 0xDFFFD}, {0xE0000, 0xEFFFD}, {0xF0000, 0xFFFFD},
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{0x100000, 0x10FFFD}, }
In RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode

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