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American programmers with little exposure to the world beyond their personal milieu agree that there is. The rest of the world stringently disagrees.
by madhadron 9y ago
American programmers with little exposure to the world beyond their personal milieu agree that there is. The rest of the world stringently disagrees.
- coldtea 9y agoI'm not an american programmer, and we used to have 2-3 of our own encodings in my country (or "codepages" as it was referred to back in the day) before utf-8 took care of that. Because of that having to handle international text was the default from since I started professionally programming. So, nope. Still, missing the point. The difference between plain text formats and binary formats is not that plain text files do no consist of bytes or don't need an encoding to read them. It's being able to work on them with a plain text editor, and being based on actual written text -- as opposed to packed bytes and custom (proprietary or not) formats.