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UTF-8 is 30 years old, and 20 years ago it was already in common use on the web. I know because I was the doofus who pushed PHP projects to adopt it because mon
by unconed 3y ago
UTF-8 is 30 years old, and 20 years ago it was already in common use on the web. I know because I was the doofus who pushed PHP projects to adopt it because monolinguals kept fucking up character encodings.
Being an older programmer is a very poor excuse at this point to not understand Unicode.
- bruce511 3y ago>> Being an older programmer is a very poor excuse at this point to not understand Unicode. I completely agree. Which does not make the ignorance I experience around Unicode from both older, and younger programmers, easier to forgive.