merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 6 months agoThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1371arrow-down12
arrow-up1369arrow-down1imageThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 6 months agomessage-square49linkfedilink
minus-squaremerari42@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·6 months agoText encoding ‘standards’ were clearly the devil’s work, handed down to humanity to sow chaos and suffering.
minus-squarefibojoly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoIn my experience things are fine while you work in a single environment, or you have control over the entire pipeline of data. Things quickly turn into a story from the Bible when different systems start trying to communicate.
Text encoding ‘standards’ were clearly the devil’s work, handed down to humanity to sow chaos and suffering.
In my experience things are fine while you work in a single environment, or you have control over the entire pipeline of data. Things quickly turn into a story from the Bible when different systems start trying to communicate.