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Re:UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 by pkulak on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:37PM (#18572410)
Pretty smart to put the fun stuff at the end so that everyone has to worry about everything in the middle.
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Re:UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 by bdamm on Friday November 30, 2018 @06:32PM (#18573764)
There must be a name for this approach to software design. That is, creating a forcing function that must correctly handle the popular case which by proxy handles a majority of less common but still important cases. (I'm aghast that MySQL had this issue!)
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Re:UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 by marcodave on Monday December 03, 2018 @06:52AM (#18588059)
it might be called ️-dd (aka emoji-driven-design)
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