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What modern software stack uses Extended ASCII as its default encoding? The last time I dealt with this problem, it was in 2005 or 2006 and I was working with P
by luigi 15y ago
What modern software stack uses Extended ASCII as its default encoding? The last time I dealt with this problem, it was in 2005 or 2006 and I was working with PHP.
- samfoo 15y agoMy guess would be that it's a flash app. Flash is (or at least used to be) horrible at internationalization issues like this.
- cpeterso 15y agoThe article's comments says the problem was that the (implicit) character encoding of the HTML page: "The problem was not the encoding on our data feed, but the HTML document was sent with ISO-8859-1. The second we inserted the twitter text into the DOM, the browsers interpreted the UTF-8 string as ISO-8859-1."