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> It’s pretty unclear to me whether people use this feature much. People only dealing with languages that use the Latin script probably don't use it at all. Bu
by grishka 5y ago
> It’s pretty unclear to me whether people use this feature much.
People only dealing with languages that use the Latin script probably don't use it at all. But, speaking from my own experience with Russian, this feature is useful. Now that unicode is the default, text encoding problems are very rare, but they do sometimes still happen. Tools like this[1] were created out of necessity, not curiosity.
[1] https://www.artlebedev.ru/decoder/ https://www.artlebedev.ru/decoder/
- zozbot234 5y agoThere are multiple legacy encodings for text in Latin script - the only subset where encoding might not matter all that much is ISO 646, which is a subset of 7-bit US-ASCII. Even then EBCDIC, while relatively uncommon, is totally incompatible with even the ISO 646 subset.