 codepages, cyrillic alphabet, pearls in the mouth of the corpse, unicode, ligatures, emojis, history of all that stuff and funny real-life stories along the line in one video by Dylan Beattie: My opinionated TLDR: Plain text is a simple format is a huge (gigantic) oversimplification :) 2 comments
 @abcdw I had seen videos of Dylan Beattie giving earlier iterations of this presentation at NDC Oslo and NDC Copenhagen, I love this presentation. I am somewhat satisfied with the world settling on ASCII and now UTF. Though UTF is quite complicated, it is less complicated than choosing between entirely different encodings based on MIME types or locale environment variables. |
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'John, you're an idiot.'
Agree.