Subject: Re: The perils of writing your own newsreader - the perils of posting to moderated newsgroups
Maria Sophia <
mariasophia@comprehension.com> wrote:
<snip>
I need to stress that out of a million people, only two or three know what is in that thread I listed above, so I understand that most people wouldn't have any idea that the Linux/macOS/Windows clipboard is so complicated.
But it is complicated too.
You think only "two of three" people out of a million, whom hang
out on Usenet in 2026, in a software-related group no less (I'm
reading this on news.software.readers) understand how character
encoding and decoding works?
<snip a whole heap of macro>
And that it takes about a thousand lines to move from one encoding
to another? Most modern programming languages can do this trivially
in one operation. You should only have to decode based on the
specified encoding, then encode to your specified encoding. Literally
one line per operation. This is specifically why Unicode is used.
Am I missing something obvious? In what language is your
newsreader written?
Phil
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