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Trying to imagine a world where every text editor has their own proprietary character encoding and compatibility with other encodings is considered an extra...
by jakear 6y ago
Trying to imagine a world where every text editor has their own proprietary character encoding and compatibility with other encodings is considered an extra... there’s something called UTF-8, but it’s been in development for 15 years without a stable release, and nobody supports it by default.
- thejohnconway 6y agoWas UTF8 in development for 15 years without a 1.0? I don’t really know enough about it to interpret the Wikipedia page on its history. In any case, that would be good if it could eventually win out, but personally I feel it was started too late, and not had enough buy-in.