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> You can't "just change" anything in a spec like that without a massive amount of planning and pain planning such as GDPR being ratified a decade ago and effe
by yieldcrv 3y ago
> You can't "just change" anything in a spec like that without a massive amount of planning and pain
planning such as GDPR being ratified a decade ago and effective since 2018?
- giardini 3y agoEBCDIC is older than the GDPR by 60 years. Give the plaintiff his/her money back and close all his/her accounts.
- olliej 3y agoEBCDIC was obsolete in the 90s, and people in Europe have had names that EBCDIC couldn't spell since at least then (technically true! :D). The issue is that whatever bottom of the barrel priced contractor they used gave them a "cheaper" new system in 1995 that was already obsolete. Now given the era, they could have made the choice to use wide chars instead and it would have been a reasonable choice (wrong in the long term, but still reasonable - unicode was only a few years old at the time), and wchars are easily (ymmv) extendable to utf-16 without having to re-encode everything which is the problem they have with EBCDIC.
- olliej 3y agoI just saw the nightmare fuel from u/em-bee (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013102) and I guess that would also be an option :D