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Always felt like a strange argument to me. I grew up bilingual, neither of these languages was English. Never in my life has it occurred to me to name a file I
by doteka 7y ago
Always felt like a strange argument to me. I grew up bilingual, neither of these languages was English. Never in my life has it occurred to me to name a file I created with something else than ascii characters.
- bildung 7y agoMe neither, but I don't write the applications only for myself :) Most normal people are not aware of these problems, e.g. because they only have used Windows for their whole life and never crossed OS boundaries. Then they never experience the encoding problems that teached us the hard way how to properly name files.
- goatinaboat 7y agoneither of these languages was English. Never in my life has it occurred to me to name a file I created with something else than ascii characters. This is the totally normal experience of every programmer from every country. The only people pushing Unicode, ironically, are white native English speakers who think they’re saving the world.
- bildung 7y agoThe people pushing Uniode are those who have to support their own applications in the field.
- Gibbon1 7y agoReminds of a guy talking about maintaining an employee directory for a large multinational. All the names had to be displayed and searchable in the correct language. And his instrumentation said that everyone was using ascii when searching the directory.
- coldtea 7y ago>This is the totally normal experience of every programmer from every country. What experience? Never naming a file in "something else than ascii characters"? It might be true for programmers. Users, which 99.9% of them are not programmers, do it ALL THE TIME in any country in the world. And why shouldn't they? Should they learn english just to name files, or use transliterations of their language names for the contents of the file? >The only people pushing Unicode, ironically, are white native English speakers who think they’re saving the world. Spoken like a person with no experience outside an English speaking country or developer echo bubble whatsoever.
- oefrha 7y ago> Never in my life has it occurred to me to name a file I created with something else than ascii characters. Yeah, now talk to someone whose native language doesn't use the Latin alphabet. In fact, just look at open source projects created by CJK natives and the unfortunate romanizations they often come up with.