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+/*-
+ * Copyright © 2023
+ *	mirabilos <m@mirbsd.org>
+ *
+ * Provided that these terms and disclaimer and all copyright notices
+ * are retained or reproduced in an accompanying document, permission
+ * is granted to deal in this work without restriction, including un‐
+ * limited rights to use, publicly perform, distribute, sell, modify,
+ * merge, give away, or sublicence.
+ *
+ * This work is provided “AS IS” and WITHOUT WARRANTY of any kind, to
+ * the utmost extent permitted by applicable law, neither express nor
+ * implied; without malicious intent or gross negligence. In no event
+ * may a licensor, author or contributor be held liable for indirect,
+ * direct, other damage, loss, or other issues arising in any way out
+ * of dealing in the work, even if advised of the possibility of such
+ * damage or existence of a defect, except proven that it results out
+ * of said person’s immediate fault when using the work as intended.
+ *
+ * Inspired by: http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/
+ */