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[–] lime@feddit.nu 161 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

asking questions like this is how i found out that one of the allowed characters in names in my country is ÿ, which is fine in Latin-1 but in 7-bit ASCII is DEL.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This sounds like it would create a whole list of fun and irritating edge conditions for some poor bugger to debug. Love it.

[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If someone else has to debug the problems caused by a parent naming their child with a special character, does that make the parent the bugger? 🤔

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can tell you that buggering is not how you become a parent.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

How about featuring?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago

that's amazing! Aren't codecs fun