> Instructables used to support Chinese characters, and someone made a decision that broke that support and it got pushed to prod. (Did someone change the text

> Instructables used to support Chinese characters, and someone made a decision that broke that support and it got pushed to prod. (Did someone change the text encoding of UGC and migrate the DB without thinking about other languages?!) At best it was the result of incompetence and apathy. Or alternatively, something somewhere was not built to design UTF-8 (since, you know, its an actual hard problem) and it was a short term "get this out the door before tonight" solution. Which having been in the industry long enough at this point is probably the most likely reason. Not some unfounded "hate" for Chinese people. Wu's rant is unhinged and insulting. It's so typical of online discussion to immediately go to "-splaining", "-ism", "-phobia" the second something happens someone doesn't like. To ice the cake she even talks about "tech bros" (the implied tone being white men). > I bet her tweets played some role in getting that fixed. Being a crybully is a not a virtue. I found this part the most hilarious: > If a CAD company gets tagged by one of the largest digital fabrication accounts on Twitter, and doesn't respond? That is your answer. Sounds a lot like "silence is violence". Another laughable term used to crybully people. Unhinged thirst trap is completely unable to understand how tech orgs actually work. News at 11.