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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That said, many of our clients still don’t support utf-8 so its all ascii and non-latin alphabets are screwed.

Ah, yes, I heard about that sort of thing. Some bank getting a GDPR complaint because they couldn't correct the spelling of someone's name, because their system uses EBCDIC.