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I really don’t think many programmers nowadays actually think this.

• bobthepanda 6y ago
  I would hazard that very few people think about what an underlying String is at all. String encoding is something I encountered as a problem in college, but is up there with implementing a homemade red-black tree in terms of “things that are asked in interviews but have little to no bearing on my day-to-day.”
  • BlueTemplar 6y ago
    Really, they don't run into string/character issues regularly ? Because I do...
    • bobthepanda 6y ago
      I certainly run into them rarely, and if I do have an issue it is usually solved by bunging it into some purpose built standard or third party library and calling it a day. I’m sure people have jobs that deal with this, but the low-level form of the problem is not something that I could see one encountering in a meaningful way for building a standard CRUD app or service.
      • belval 6y ago
        I completely agree with you, but everyone who doesn't have to deal with unicode/strings on a regular basis should consider themselves lucky. Once your add RTL text (with the matching bidi algorithm) or grapheme-based written system such as Devanagari which doesn't really have characters at all it becomes such a mess so fast.