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I did not ASCII that coming (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So... UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1? You have failed Unicode college >:(

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If only you knew how many huge companies have no fucking clue...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Their employees have failed Unicode college >:(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I agree! There really should be no excuses at this point... you'd think. Even in 2008 I already felt we were behind the loop, but apparently I was vastly underestimating how bigger companies just dgaf.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Â¯\_(ã )_/Â¯

print('¯\_(ツ)_/¯'.encode('u8').decode('l1'))

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

And here I was typing out iso-8859-1 like a scrub to make sure I wasn't misremembering the encoding when doing the analogous thing in python...