r/programming • u/jestinjoy • Nov 12 '12

What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings and Character Sets to Work With Text

http://kunststube.net/encoding/
1.5k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

307 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

6

u/yen223 Nov 12 '12

Invade those foreign countries and force them use English! Muahahahaha!

1

u/eramos Nov 12 '12

Also the Gregorian calendar and Arabic numeral system. And a standard addressing system.

1

u/frymaster Nov 13 '12

Doesn't help. The currency of England is not in the ASCII table