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It's also UTF-8 with BOM. It's also windows western 1252. Dont get me started on international date time formatting and time assumptions :(
I wish it was just UTF-8
It's also some surprise internal representation as utf-16; that's at least still in the realm of Unicode. Would also expect there's utf-32 still floating around somewhere, but I couldn't tell you where.
And is mysql still doing that thing with
utf8as a noob trap andutf8_for_real_we_mean_it_this_time_honestor whatever they called it as normal utf8?Me too. To this Day our national Electric invoice standard uses ISO-8859-15. An that's just fine until somebody feels the need to have a look with Notepad, add a random space and save the file.
Notepad then helpfully changes the encoding to UTF-16 and the whole patch errors out somewhere down the chain.