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Andrew Tropin | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 codepages, cyrillic alphabet, unicode, ligatures, emojis, history of all that stuff and funny real-life stories along the line in one video by Dylan Beattie:

https://youtu.be/4mRxIgu9R70

My opinionated TLDR on that talk: Plain text is not a simple format.

#unix #plaintext #unicode #unicode click this tag and the previous one :)
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Ramin Honary | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @123e16e8 I had seen videos of Dylan Beattie giving earlier iterations of this presentation at NDC Oslo and NDC Copenhagen, I love this presentation.
I am somewhat satisfied with the world settling on ASCII and now UTF. Though UTF is quite complicated, it is less complicated than choosing between entirely different encodings based on MIME types or locale environment variables.