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Use Haiku BUnicodeChar after bounded UTF-8 validation, distinguish whitespace predicates, and separate scalar casing from string and grapheme rules.
Use Haiku BString safely by separating byte lengths from UTF-8 character offsets, managing borrowed buffers, and testing mutation boundaries.
Use Haiku BTextView correctly across UTF-8 edits, selection ranges, styled runs, clipboard operations, undo state, scrolling, and user input.
How Ken Thompson and Rob Pike shaped UTF-8 in 1992, why self-synchronizing bytes mattered, and how later standards narrowed it to today's secure form.