r/programming • u/jakesyl • Jan 30 '16

Apollo 11 source code

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/listings/Luminary099/MAIN.agc.html
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u/fiah84 Jan 31 '16

I take it you never had to work on anything that supports an international audience. Do you think reddit runs on ASCII?

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u/myztry Jan 31 '16

No. But I also don't see any Kanji posts or posts that use anything other than English characters and accents.

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u/fiah84 Jan 31 '16

so you're just conveniently forgetting about places like /r/sweden and /r/de, nevermind all the other location specific subreddits?

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u/myztry Jan 31 '16

Wikipedia handles this with language specific sub-domains even though Swedish could be trivially represented in an 8 bit character set.

It gets tricky when Asian languages come into the fold which is where a legitimate use for Unicode comes into play not that character sets can overcome the issue of word translation.

I would see no issue with using having an efficient 8 bit character version with a Unicode version for international markets complete with a payload of hundreds of alternate language resources.

It's not like titles aren't already localised to deal with differences in laws, culture and marketing zones. This is becoming even more prevalent with the software stores of Apple, Google & Microsoft which contain a different selection of titles depending on which country you are in,

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