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If you don't care much about Unicode, then either you haven't written any complicated software that deals with other people's text data, or you have been scrupu
by pjscott 15y ago
If you don't care much about Unicode, then either you haven't written any complicated software that deals with other people's text data, or you have been scrupulous in avoiding Unicode problems, or you haven't encountered any of the many Unicode problems in your code. Personally, I've spent way too much time dealing with subtle Unicode bugs, in my own code and especially in other people's code, and so I care vehemently. This is a major source of headaches.
Don't be so sure that it isn't broken.
- rdtsc 15y ago> you haven't written any complicated software that deals with other people's text data Actually you are right. Most input and output of our software is not text. And we mostly work for the US military (so UI is in English). This probably explains why. However in general I feel I should know more about. It is sort one of those things like when we were talking about interview questions and someone brought up Pascal's triangle. I felt I should have known about what it is, but I couldn't remember. It is not something I need to know for work, but rather something I felt embarrassed for not knowing.