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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) (www.joelonsoftware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Good thing print debugging is still going strong!

I code across multiple systems, particularly Windows and Linux. A lot of data involved. These encoding issues are rare. Granted, I'm more on the backend of things and more numerical-data driven. I'd expect a completely different set of headaches for web dev and such. But that just highlights the issue I have with the claim that every programmer must know this. Hence why the comment about taking it with a grain of salt.

I have seen a lot of people interested in learning but get turned away by this level of complexity. This imo is unnecessary. Programming is first and foremost about logic, this level of in-depth knowledge requirement is what we have been doing away with in higher-level programming languages.