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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by greenshackle2 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:00PM (#28936511)
I've seen shipping labels with HTML encoded characters, like é and è. I'm not sure if that's better or worse:

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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by qwerty456127 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:06PM (#28938540)
This is a pretty frequent thing to encounter actually. Just some years ago many websites actually preferred to use ISO/Windows codepages to save space on multibyte Unicode symbols adding HTML entities to represent everything which is not in it the basic ASCII and their primary language alphabet.

Fun fact: I was looking for an e-mail solution for a small company about a decade ago and found Zarafa. It seemed nice and I deployed it happily. Just to find out it only supports the Western European ISO codepage which was hardcoded. I hope they have switched to UTF-8 since then.

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