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The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.” (lemmy.world)
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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

You'd think things would be simple, otherwise the existence of UTF-8.

And yet for the last 17 years, every company I've been in has had some sort of horrible mess involving unicode and non-unicode and nobody either recognising the problem, or knowing how to solve it when they did recognise it ("well, the £ turns into a ? so we just replace any ? in the filename by a £").