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TextDecoder({ stream: true }): why UTF-8 boundaries break naïve streaming

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The bug nobody catches until a Japanese user reports it. Walk through how UTF-8 multi-byte characters interact with chunk boundaries, why { stream: true } exists, and the class of bugs it represents.

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