Post #3804713

@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be @amy@mastodon.fibercut.org Now imagine you have a C codebase that was developed in Japan. All of the files use Shift-JIS, which your editor doesn't support, so all of the comments are mojibake. You would like to read the comments, so you use iconv to convert them all into UTF-8. This works, except *none of the code compiles anymore*, because the process turned all of the backslashes into yen signs (U+00A5). Then you give up and never open that project directory again.