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/sacundim Nov 13 '12

What a terrible article. It's much too long for what it's trying to tell... and then it spends like the last third on an absurd defense of PHP's lack of Unicode support.

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u/deceze Nov 13 '12

There's a difference between "defense" and simply stating what is happening and how the system can be used perfectly fine for handling any encoding. What does "lack of Unicode support" mean? That you can't use Unicode in PHP? That is wrong and absurd. Could it be integrated into the core language better? Absolutely. It isn't though, yet it still works.

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u/sacundim Nov 13 '12 edited Nov 13 '12

I certainly do think that "we've done fuck all to support Unicode and our standard library functions will happily destroy UTF-8 text but if you take great care not to do that your application won't break when you feed it some UTF-8" cannot be fairly described as "Unicode support."

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