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In my experience, never. You are considered the bug, not their system.
by kingcharles 5y ago
In my experience, never. You are considered the bug, not their system.
- PeterisP 5y agoHere's a relevant recent EU court case of a person arguing with their bank that their name should be represented properly including the accented 'é', as the GDPR asserts a right to have mistakes of personal data corrected. The bank argued that it's impossible due to a legacy system using EBCDIC encoding and would be expensive to change. The appeals court affirmed that the customer has the right to get mistakes in their personal data corrected, and it is the duty of the bank to do so even if it is expensive. https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Court_of_Appeal_of_Brussels_-_2019/AR/1006 https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Court_of_Appeal_of_Brusse...
- sushsjsuauahab 5y agoThis is an insanely nightmarish precedent. We need to take computer systems less seriously. In a human-interface world, these issues are avoided thanks to simple human intuition.
- unionpivo 5y agoI disagree. We are in this mess because nobody took it serious enough for long time. Now that serious money is on the table, it might actually get solved and fixed once and for all. We/us in tech had 30 years to fix our shit on our own. We didn't, that's the result.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoI once did it, encoded UTF-8 text in a legacy text because the system interface didn't support unicode, and decoded on the other end. Used • prefix as a marker of encoded string... now that I think about it, it could be just old good BOM. MIME standard also has extensive experience in packing arbitrary data in 7-bit clean text.
- dylan604 5y agoI'd consider it more of an edgecase than a bug.