• @[email protected]
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    132 months ago

    ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

    I guess I should refrain from writing text in my own language using non-ASCII symbols due to American exceptionalism and piety.

    • Bobby Turkalino
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      142 months ago

      I was thinking about whether I should put an /s in my comment when I wrote it, and I thought “nah, it’s pretty clear that it’s a joke”. You have proved me wrong. I promise to do better next time

    • @whatwhatwhatwhat
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      2 months ago

      Thank you for realizing the error of your ways

      Eagle screech

      (also /s in case that wasn’t clear)

      • @[email protected]
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        I substitute æ, ø and å with ae, oe and aa because it gives me trouble writing code. Does the programming language I write in and almost everything else support UTF-8: Yes. Does some obscure thing always fuck up the encoding of special characters: Yes.

        Especially converting files and moving them between different OS sucks.

        This is kinda what my joke is about, taking the parent comment “seriously” because someone, an American I presume, did not take encoding seriously once sometime and now fucks up my workflow for eternity.