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These days, most people don't even know/care what Unicode is.

• Hexstream 19y ago
  These days, most people don't even know/care what functional programming is.
• axod 19y ago
  What??? I kinda like being able to talk about things as fundamental as money, without having to use (GBP). I'd like to use currency symbols for a start, what about math? I'd like to use pi occasionally. How about I want to add a nice 'tm' or (c) sign. People care if a website is using correct unicode characters or not. Perhaps they don't know/care because the majority of websites now are unicode, and just work.
• far33d 19y ago
  Coders care, users don't. Just like they don't care about tables used for layout.
  • axod 19y ago
    Users care if their name is zoe (with an accent on the e), or if they want to discuss prices of things in euros or GBP. I wrote a php forum a while back. You wouldn't believe the number of emails telling me that the gbp sign doesn't show up properly when they post a comment.
  • ashu 19y ago
    Even if the users don't care (although they very much do when their characters all show up jumbled), the conversation here in this thread _is_ very much about the coders. Saying unicode is irrelevant is pretty strong in this context and IMHO, pretty bizarre.
    • far33d 19y ago
      Fine. My point it that it's hardly a "major deficiency" that would make arc "unusable".
      • ashu 19y ago
        I think that's a fair point - quite distinct from the original comment though.
        • far33d 19y ago
          that's what I get for trying to be snarky.
• bayareaguy 19y ago
  Yes, but they get peeved when cut+paste doesn't work the way they expect.