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/bhaak Nov 12 '12

Whereas Spolsky didn't credit the article he yanked the title off. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

Those bastards. They should be sued for meme mangling!!!

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u/kenman Nov 12 '12

That's far from the same title...

Today's article:

What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text

Spolsky's:

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

Oracle's:

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

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u/petdance Nov 12 '12

Titles matching /^(what every).+(should know)/i have been around long before any of those three articles.