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> Though for me the real takeaway is that LSP specifies UTF-16 offsets. That sounds unpleasant to work with.

Speaking as someone who has written an lsp server: yes, it is indeed unpleasant to work with.

Thanks, for people looking for bug, see https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/2080

> Though for me the real takeaway is that LSP specifies UTF-16 offsets. That sounds unpleasant to work with.

It is beyond time for UTF-16 to die. And yet it looks like we're stuck with it for the inevitable foreseeable future.

We'll be stuck with UTF-16 as long as we have Unicode, it would seem. The character set itself has to have a hole in the middle of it for the sole purpose of working around UTF-16 limitations.