You’d think things would be simple, otherwise the existence of UTF-8.
And yet for the last 17 years, every company I’ve been in has had some sort of horrible mess involving unicode and non-unicode and nobody either recognising the problem, or knowing how to solve it when they did recognise it (“well, the £ turns into a ? so we just replace any ? in the filename by a £”).
It’s just UTF-8
Android defaults to UTF16
All because of java
TIL I didn’t realize Java used UTF16 for its internal representation. Looks like it’s a bit more complicated than that after Java 9 too
You’d think things would be simple, otherwise the existence of UTF-8.
And yet for the last 17 years, every company I’ve been in has had some sort of horrible mess involving unicode and non-unicode and nobody either recognising the problem, or knowing how to solve it when they did recognise it (“well, the £ turns into a ? so we just replace any ? in the filename by a £”).