I noticed that the code converts utf8 to utf16 manually, however String#codePointAt() is already standardized for quite a while.
I think switch to use the built in version should give unidecode a huge performance boost.
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I noticed that the code converts utf8 to utf16 manually, however
String#codePointAt()is already standardized for quite a while.I think switch to use the built in version should give unidecode a huge performance boost.
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