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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My employer's CI rejects extended ASCII characters :(

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Really? You never use the occasional   or something?

Edit: my client actually parses the space lol

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Just remembered not all projects have a web interface or an interface at all

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Backslashes are not extended ASCII

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's normal, you should just use Unicode in that case.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Feel free to encode it whichever way suits you best.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless it's ISO 8859-1, apparently.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if you're completely up to date on this whole Unicode thing.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure if you're completely up-to-date on this whole encoding thing.