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UTF-8? Anyone?
Beyoncé
So... UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1? You have failed Unicode college >:(
If only you knew how many huge companies have no fucking clue...
Their employees have failed Unicode college >:(
I agree! There really should be no excuses at this point... you'd think. Even in 2008 I already felt we were behind the loop, but apparently I was vastly underestimating how bigger companies just dgaf.
¯\_(ã )_/¯
And here I was typing out
iso-8859-1like a scrub to make sure I wasn't misremembering the encoding when doing the analogous thing in python...Sorry, no, but I can support it in UTF-16.
Maybe she was sick of trying to get a terminal displaying utf correctly.
So... she's running DD-WRT :P
UTF-8 Random anyone?
Myths.