• Buckshot@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    You’ve never worked in finance then. All our systems at work do nothing but move large amounts of txt files around.

    That said, many of our clients still don’t support utf-8 so its all ascii and non-latin alphabets are screwed. They can’t even handle characters 128-255 so even stuff like £ is unsupported.

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      That said, many of our clients still don’t support utf-8 so its all ascii and non-latin alphabets are screwed.

      Ah, yes, I heard about that sort of thing. Some bank getting a GDPR complaint because they couldn’t correct the spelling of someone’s name, because their system uses EBCDIC.