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For web developers, it matters as soon as a user pastes text with curly quotes from a Word document web page. For other developers, it matters as soon as you h
by mbrubeck 17y ago
For web developers, it matters as soon as a user pastes text with curly quotes from a Word document web page. For other developers, it matters as soon as you have to parse a file format or use a protocol with non-ASCII data. I'm in the U.S., and I've eventually had to deal with character encoding at five of the six companies I've worked for.