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Unicode (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[โ€“] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only if it's enabled by default, or the dev knows to enable it.

I had a lot of weird problems processing some info with names in Powershell until I found out that Powershell doesn't default to unicode format when shoving output into files. You can easily specify the encoding, but if you don't it replaces any non-ascii characters with "?" by default, so it's not even immediately obvious that there's an incorrect character, as it just silently substitutes a valid one.

[โ€“] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

it uses big-endian utf-16 with BOM by default unless you upgrade to PowerShell 7