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and programmers in the US don't write software that has to work in Europe too?

• jm4 17y ago
  Of course they do but not as often as one would think.
  • dasil003 17y ago
    On the other hand, the times when this attitude actually pans out in terms of broken character encoding is vanishingly small. All it takes is one person with an accented name, or someone pasting in smart quotes to break your application and make you look like an amateur. The idea that Americans only need ASCII is silly.