The Perils of Implementing Code from PDFs
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Copying the C-like pseudocode out of the h.265 spec into source files produces surprising failures: a Unicode hyphen ( U+2010 hyphen ) and curly quotes turn into GCC diagnostics like 'Error: stray '\342' in program' because GCC doesn't understand UTF-8 in identifiers or operators. The remedy is mechanical: normalize characters, replace nonbreaking spaces and em/en dashes, and then the decoder for closed captions in 4k H.265 compiles and works.
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