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call it "cultural" instead of "political" and you're on the mark. force_encoding! is sometimes needed if you get data from inputs that pretend to be a differen
by Xylakant 14y ago
call it "cultural" instead of "political" and you're on the mark.
force_encoding! is sometimes needed if you get data from inputs that pretend to be a different encoding than they actually are. It does offer a lot of rope to hang yourself with though.
- halostatue 14y agoIt's a bit of both. It's cultural insensitivity at the time it was done that resulted in the better part of a decade where Unicode was stalled in the East.