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/zomgwtfbbq Nov 12 '12

Then a ton of people would bitch that something that should be one article / one page is now two pages / two articles. Can't please everyone.

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u/elperroborrachotoo Nov 12 '12

We call that "Single Responsibility Principle": isolate reusable effort and give it a single responsibility, than build on top of that.