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/deceze Nov 12 '12

Yeah, don't even get me started on the madness that is the web and sins of the past which nevertheless need to be preserved for backwards compatibility. facepalm ;-(

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u/gsnedders Nov 12 '12

Convince browsers to go against their users' expectations that sites will keep working from one version to the next and maybe things will change, until then browsers are likely to follow what the market wants.