Post AdH43NzFqRhsvKbepE by ifilipau@mas.to
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 (DIR) Post #AdH43MFqHnmrYCLsP2 by cda@fosstodon.org
       2023-12-28T13:56:45Z
       
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       I'm beginning to wonder if all German systems just run on pre-UTF8 systems. My name causes them to go haywire, and my colleagues whose names contain umlauts have to use "oe"/"ue" etc. just to sign up for things.The fada in my name is actually kind of important. If you remove it, it becomes a Scottish name rather than an Irish one. That wasn't my parents' intent.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdH43NzFqRhsvKbepE by ifilipau@mas.to
       2023-12-28T14:55:08Z
       
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       @cda In Germany, a lot of systems (and people) are hard-coded "latin1" (iso8859-1).Unicode/etc are spreading, but not sure how wide.In a nutshell, from i18n perspective, Germany is a 8-bit "latin1" upgrade from the US' 7-bit "ascii". Anyway, who needs anything but English alphabet, right? right? 🥲
       
 (DIR) Post #AdH47rjFCw5CKBFnSy by yetzt@vis.social
       2023-12-28T15:24:18Z
       
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       @cda @alda yes. everything is some stupid legacy 7 bit encoding here. we call it "schei� encoding"