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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) (tonsky.me)

submitted 1 year ago by snaggen@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] lucas@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

currency symbols other than the $ (kind of tells you who invented computers, doesn’t it?)

Who wants to tell the author that not everything was invented in the US? (And computers certainly weren't)

[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The stupid thing is, all the author had to do was write "kind of tells you who invented ASCII" and he'd have been 100% right in his logic and history.

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