Marc Logeman are having a fit over charactersets. And I agree.
We have been struggeling with character encodings in our system, and since we didn’t have any legacy data etc. we could just go for Unicode all the way. It took us a while to figure out though, and I’m not convinced I won’t do any errors connected to it on my next project. There might be some performance and storage issues, but I don’t see any big reason we shouldn’t start using Unicode as the default. The problem is all the legacy data, but the OS wendors should really start shifting it all to Unicode. It’ll save the IT industry billions when not every single developer has to figure out those strange character errors they are getting. Marc Logemann seems to agree.
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