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This is what we get for diverging from God’s word (ASCII)
I guess I should refrain from writing text in my own language using non-ASCII symbols due to American exceptionalism and piety.
Are there any major languages that actually struggle to be typed today?
I substitute æ, ø and å with ae, oe and aa because it gives me trouble writing code. Does the programming language I write in and almost everything else support UTF-8: Yes. Does some obscure thing always fuck up the encoding of special characters: Yes.
Especially converting files and moving them between different OS sucks.
This is kinda what my joke is about, taking the parent comment "seriously" because someone, an American I presume, did not take encoding seriously once sometime and now fucks up my workflow for eternity.