Buttons@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 years agoThe Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)www.joelonsoftware.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down14cross-posted to: programming@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareButtons@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoIt’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.
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.