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To me, this is the equivalent of developers assuming everything is 7-bit ASCII because that works in their testing... with US English input only. Sure, they mig
by jiggawatts 2y ago
To me, this is the equivalent of developers assuming everything is 7-bit ASCII because that works in their testing... with US English input only. Sure, they might use UTF-8 under the hood, but they never test with anything other than English so all sorts of things end up broken in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Right-to-left, word breaking, collation, or something.
"AverageColorRGBA8" for example bakes in the assumption of RGB order, 8-bit, and an assumed linear color space. All three assumptions are regularly violated in real-world apps. For example, HDR formats generally use 10-bit integer or 16-bit float primaries. Some formats use YUV instead of RGB.