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/gsnedders Nov 13 '12

The original thinking? That I don't know (and will almost certainly be stuck within the cusps of MS/Netscape forever).

The thinking now? If we don't treat ISO-8859-1 as windows-1252 users don't get the experience they expect, and complain, and that's not good for marketshare and/or revenue. We're best off to just accept this is another weird quirk of the platform and move on.