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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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It's still true that if you have a bunch of bytes and don't know their encoding, you don't really know what characters you have.
Good thing print debugging is still going strong!
I code across multiple systems, particularly Windows and Linux. A lot of data involved. These encoding issues are rare. Granted, I'm more on the backend of things and more numerical-data driven. I'd expect a completely different set of headaches for web dev and such. But that just highlights the issue I have with the claim that every programmer must know this. Hence why the comment about taking it with a grain of salt.
I have seen a lot of people interested in learning but get turned away by this level of complexity. This imo is unnecessary. Programming is first and foremost about logic, this level of in-depth knowledge requirement is what we have been doing away with in higher-level programming languages.