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In 2018 I inherited a rather large website, and have been slowly fixing it to support unicode because many of the users want to use their real names, not an Eng
by SavantIdiot 5y ago
In 2018 I inherited a rather large website, and have been slowly fixing it to support unicode because many of the users want to use their real names, not an English-hack version of it.
It is WAY more complicated than I thought it would be. There is so much code that manipulates strings that is not unicode aware.
I've fixed the simple things, like places where the user name is displayed, etc., but the email subsystem is a train wreck and there are still places in the database where I couldn't retroactively fix old entries. Going on 4 years fixing this!
But EBCDIC? Damn, opportunity to make lots of $$ here fixing people's code. I had friends that made bank on Y2K prep in the mid-90's.
- kccqzy 5y ago> email subsystem is a train wreck Actually, which email system supports email addresses with non-ASCII user names? And which additionally supports IDN domains?
- SavantIdiot 5y agoActually, there are other parts to the email subsystem besides the POP/SMPT interface, such as code that dynamically generates the subject and body, and have lots of regex and string manip code in them.