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@magicMirror utf8mb4 yo
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@magicMirror I once edited code with notepad. Somehow it added an invisible character. Let's say that sometimes strange things happen.
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@Pickman The BOM. Who the F, came up with that shit?
A coworker had this issue with a nul char inside a string, that made strings that should be the same, not the same... -
@Root utf8mb4 deserves an entire rant on its own.
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@magicMirror The BOM is relevant, but only for UTF-16 or -32.
Otherwise: Who the fuck thought using UTF-8 with a BOM was any good idea!? -
@sbiewald The BOM is not relvant for shell scripts. Who the Fuck writes shell scripts in utf16???
I once wasted a day on this..... -
@magicMirror One word: Powershell.
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@muttley Everything Oracle touches turns into utter and complete fucking shit. While some things do take longer, there are zero exceptions.
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@Root I don't know, man. I like Weblogic.
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@magicMirror I still don't understand it.
@telephantasm nothing this mundane. It was an honest special character that made absolutely no sense.
The working theory was that it was caused by a lock on the file while I was editing it.
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