The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

a year ago by merari42 to c/programmer_humor

KernelTale 32 points a year ago

It's just UTF-8

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darksiderbun 21 points a year ago

It's also UTF-8 with BOM. It's also windows western 1252. Dont get me started on international date time formatting and time assumptions :(

I wish it was just UTF-8

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syklemil 11 points a year ago

It's also some surprise internal representation as utf-16; that's at least still in the realm of Unicode. Would also expect there's utf-32 still floating around somewhere, but I couldn't tell you where.

And is mysql still doing that thing with utf8 as a noob trap and utf8_for_real_we_mean_it_this_time_honest or whatever they called it as normal utf8?

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khapyman 7 points a year ago

Me too. To this Day our national Electric invoice standard uses ISO-8859-15. An that's just fine until somebody feels the need to have a look with Notepad, add a random space and save the file.

Notepad then helpfully changes the encoding to UTF-16 and the whole patch errors out somewhere down the chain.

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