As one of the people that built a alternative implementation, this is completely true, but also much worse, cause there were 2 things around crypto, signing and

As one of the people that built a alternative implementation, this is completely true, but also much worse, cause there were 2 things around crypto, signing and hashing, and one encoded it one way, and the other encoded it a different way (encoding as far as utf16 and such) which meant that for ascii, everything just worked fine, but as soon as you started using non-ascii, everything got 2x as complex.