Joel covered this[1] topic over 20 years ago (!!) and we still regularly see "senior" programmers who just casually think of text as a string and strings as tex

Joel covered this[1] topic over 20 years ago (!!) and we still regularly see "senior" programmers who just casually think of text as a string and strings as text, and that's all there is to it. I still regularly see websites full of ????? and U+FFFD and apostrophes becoming ’ everywhere. 1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...