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TLDR: OMG text is difficult! In this article, unusually, text is difficult because of naive expectations, not because of incompetence. For example, the treatm
by HelloNurse 6y ago
TLDR: OMG text is difficult!
In this article, unusually, text is difficult because of naive expectations, not because of incompetence.
For example, the treatment of case-insensitive comparisons is quite good, but the author thinks that counting "characters" should be simple and well-defined, that conversion between uppercase and lowercase characters should be reversible, and that that one can "obviously use well supported libraries that solve this problem for you".