Just the most recent episode: A statistician is using PHP, on Windows, to analyze text for character frequency. He's rather confused by the UTF-16LE encoding an

Just the most recent episode: A statistician is using PHP, on Windows, to analyze text for character frequency. He's rather confused by the UTF-16LE encoding and thinks the character "A" is numbered 4100 because that's what is shown in a hex-editor. I tried explaining about the little-endian part, and mb-string functions in PHP. And that PHP is not a good fit for his projects. Then I realized that this is hilarious and I won't be able to kick him from his local minimum there. Everything he could learn about encodings would first complicate his work.