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रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)<p>Every time I look at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> gotchas, I 😰:</p><p>“RFC 9839 And Bad Unicode”, Tim Bray (<a href="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20</span><span class="invisible">25/08/14/RFC9839</span></a>).</p><p>On HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44995640" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">4995640</span></a></p><p>On Lobsters: <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/qrs9w8/rfc_9839_bad_unicode" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lobste.rs/s/qrs9w8/rfc_9839_ba</span><span class="invisible">d_unicode</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Encoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Encoding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Text</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFC9839" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFC9839</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Validation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Validation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ErrorHandling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErrorHandling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTF8</span></a></p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p>«Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> characters encoded in <a href="https://graz.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTF8</span></a>. There’s another question, though: “Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”</p><p>This issue keeps coming up, so [ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@paulehoffman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>paulehoffman</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@timbray" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>timbray</span></a></span> ] put together an individual-submission draft to the IETF and now (where by “now” I mean “two years later”) it’s been published as <a href="https://graz.social/tags/RFC9839" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFC9839</span></a>. It explains which characters are bad, and why, then offers three plausible less-bad subsets that you might want to use.»</p><p><a href="https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20</span><span class="invisible">25/08/14/RFC9839</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@timbray" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>timbray</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/CharacterEncoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacterEncoding</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/LML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LML</span></a></p>
Shawn Brink<p>How to Enable or Disable <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> UTF-8 for Worldwide Language Support in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> and <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Windows10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows10</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTF8</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/UnicodeUTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnicodeUTF8</span></a><br><a href="https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-unicode-utf-8-for-worldwide-language-support-in-windows-11.38649/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-di</span><span class="invisible">sable-unicode-utf-8-for-worldwide-language-support-in-windows-11.38649/</span></a></p>
rawe<p>It is 2025 and it has been 0 days since I wasted way too much time due to f"¿Quéucked up character encoding.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utf8</span></a></p>
Ge0rG<p>30 years in, UTF-8 remains a mystery.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ScreenshotSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScreenshotSaturday</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utf8</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Neuland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neuland</span></a></p>
Dave Tabb<p>Every time I read about how we encode characters as bit-patterns on computers, I feel impressed all over again.<br><a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTF8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Ethiopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethiopia</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1200.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1200.p</span><span class="invisible">df</span></a></p>
dusoft<p>ETA app of the UK government does not support diacritics in 2025! Get that, Unicode!<br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/govuk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>govuk</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/greatbritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greatbritain</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mess</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utf8</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unicode</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ui</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>app</span></a></p>
jzdm<p>TIL: Deutsches <a href="https://mieth.social/tags/Excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Excel</span></a> (unter MacOS) erwartet beim Öffnen einer CSV-Datei UTF8-Encoding mit BOM. `iconv(1)` setzt kein BOM.<br>Warum Excel ohne BOM aber nicht ISO-8859-1 annimmt, ist mir noch schleierhaft.<br><a href="https://mieth.social/tags/Encoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Encoding</span></a> <a href="https://mieth.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTF8</span></a> <a href="https://mieth.social/tags/BOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOM</span></a> <a href="https://mieth.social/tags/iconv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iconv</span></a> <a href="https://mieth.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a></p>
we compiled different<p>here's what <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taggart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taggart</span></a> looks like for now.</p><p>showing some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/torrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>torrent</span></a>-ed music with tags in invalid encoding (pre-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utf8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/win1251" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>win1251</span></a>), and some albums ripped from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ytdlp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ytdlp</span></a> (where all the tracks are concatenated):</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tengri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tengri</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tui</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/id3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>id3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rustlang</span></a></p>
vintage screwlisp account<p>Hey everyone. I must admit, I don't believe I have ever seen someone enter <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utf8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unicode</span></a> characters on a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> in a natural way. Which seems weird, because a bunch of languages use them.</p><p>I wrote a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/commonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonLisp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/asdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asdf</span></a> package that just looks up a list of symbols in a file that has every non-surrogate unicode codepoint in it, and an <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/elisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elisp</span></a> function that just calls the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> one.</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/tfw/unicode-chars" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/tfw/unicode-chars</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Multilingual people, what can you tell me about doing this at all?</p>
Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserAgent</span></a> based banning of <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/textmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>textmode</span></a> browsers is sooooo lame.</p><p>$ lynx -useragent=🖕 https://[…]</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Lynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lynx</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TUI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TextModeBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TextModeBrowser</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTF8</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Emoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emoji</span></a></p>
Indy Joenz<p>I drew this picture of my friend Kali to demonstrate that doodling <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unicode</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ansi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ansi</span></a> art in a unix <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> is real. Also fun!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ansiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ansiart</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utf8</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/textmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>textmode</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/durdraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>durdraw</span></a></p>
Agnès H.<p>Celui-ci me fait toujours autant rire. <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/illustrerMesPropos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illustrerMesPropos</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utf8</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/reactionPics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reactionPics</span></a></p>
Your Name Is Invalid!<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://veganism.social/@MichalBryxi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MichalBryxi</span></a></span></p><p>Names of people cannot be invalid.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>utf8</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/encoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>encoding</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/iCanBreakItForYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iCanBreakItForYou</span></a></p>
Michal Bryxí 🌱<p>I just love it how it&#39;s 2023 and we still can&#39;t do UTF-8 right 🫠</p><p><a href="https://veganism.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>utf8</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/encoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>encoding</span></a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/iCanBreakItForYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iCanBreakItForYou</span></a></p>
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