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minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoOTOH, there is only one character set that matters, and any system using a different one is, by that fact alone, broken.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoPick one :) https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoI said only one that matters. So I already did pick one. It’s called Unicode.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agoUTF-8 and UTF-16 pretty much do everything, but if you have a UTF-16 emoji in a UTF-8 system, you’ll have a bad day. :(
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoThose are encodings, not character sets.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoIANA calls them character sets, it’s literally in the URL twice, that’s good enough for me!
OTOH, there is only one character set that matters, and any system using a different one is, by that fact alone, broken.
Pick one :)
https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml
I said only one that matters. So I already did pick one. It’s called Unicode.
UTF-8 and UTF-16 pretty much do everything, but if you have a UTF-16 emoji in a UTF-8 system, you’ll have a bad day. :(
Those are encodings, not character sets.
IANA calls them character sets, it’s literally in the URL twice, that’s good enough for me!