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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by tialaramex on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:19AM (#33081612)
> what encoding is it in?

UTF-8. Unless you've got clear directions that it needs to be something else, the correct choice is always UTF-8. Stop emitting things in other encodings, "Doctor it hurts when I stab myself with this knife". Yes it does, so don't.

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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by throwaway09223 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:21AM (#33081651)
That's a great guess, but my point is that it's a guess. It will sometimes be wrong, and when the guess is wrong you will have articles like the above written complaining about the fallout.

These types of errors are guaranteed specifically because of the policy of guessing and loose heuristics you're describing.

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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:36PM (#33083808)
Unicode fixes it. It's why legacy encodings are unworkable.
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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by throwaway09223 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:29PM (#33087241)
Unicode absolutely does not fix the issue of not knowing the encoding of a legacy byte buffer with text in it.
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