EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR by raverbashing on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:28AM (#38010930)

> So now every organization needs to be able to handle every script in the world?

No. But it's one thing to not support Japanese the other not to support apostrophes or accents in text written in latin characters

But guess what was also incompatible with this? ASCII. Hence the é things in HTML

You can fix this if you encode it

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Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR by wodenokoto on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:42AM (#38011358)

So where does the buck end? There are plenty of ornaments that different languages add to Latin letters other than accents and apostrophes.

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