When was the last time you got an email from a friend that was accidentally printed in Chinese?
When was the last time you got an email from a friend that was accidentally printed in Chinese?
Never. But I've seen PLENTY of situations where encoding was the cause of major issues.
Fuck man, even the way new lines are created in a text file is dependent on encoding. On windows, you need a Carriage Return AND a Line Feed. In AIX, you need just the line feed. Pass a CRLF windows encoded file to linux expecting LF, and you get fail.
Never. But I've seen PLENTY of situations where encoding was the cause of major issues.
Fuck man, even the way new lines are created in a text file is dependent on encoding. On windows, you need a Carriage Return AND a Line Feed. In AIX, you need just the line feed. Pass a CRLF windows encoded file to linux expecting LF, and you get fail.
Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding
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