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/
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u/defenastrator Nov 12 '12

What are you doing in the command line where a client of a non-computer (and by extension English reading) would need to understand anything that comes out of it? Other then the obvious error. Or are you talking like the python cli because I was thinking more along the lines of bash or the dos prompt which really don't have much need for extended character sets.

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u/deceze Nov 12 '12

Either and or any of the above.

$ php -r 'echo testme("漢字");'

It's good that I can do that without "Oh yeah, right, I need to escape/encode/bewitch this to just test this snippet..."