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The World If Excel Encoded CSV Using UTF-8
Microsoft Windows Programming Debugging Databases
6 days ago 60.5K views 0 shares
The World If Excel Encoded CSV Using UTF-8
BEHOLD! The utopian future we were ROBBED of because Excel insists on using Latin-1 encoding for CSV files instead of UTF-8! 🙄 We could've had flying cars, space elevators, and gleaming futuristic cities, but NOOO! Instead, we're stuck debugging weird characters like "é" and "’" every time someone dares to use a non-English character in their spreadsheet! The AUDACITY of Microsoft to keep us in the dark ages with their encoding choices! This is why we can't have nice things, people!

The Copy-Paste Conspiracy
Debugging Programming Testing
7 days ago 66.0K views 0 shares
The Copy-Paste Conspiracy
That moment when you copy-paste the instructor's code and it still doesn't work. Is it the invisible spaces? The quotation marks? The cosmic alignment of semicolons? The cat's expression perfectly captures that mix of confusion and betrayal when your IDE lights up with errors despite following instructions exactly . Pro tip: teachers sometimes deliberately include subtle errors in their examples to see who's actually typing the code themselves versus who's just copying. Sneaky, but effective!

Parsing UTF-8 Isn't Unicode Support
Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming
1 month ago 87.7K views 0 shares
Parsing UTF-8 Isn't Unicode Support
The classic "we support Unicode" lie exposed in three painful acts. Sure, your app can parse UTF-8 and display emoji, but ask about combining characters or bidirectional text and suddenly everyone's looking at their shoes. It's like saying "I speak Spanish" because you can order a burrito. The true Unicode experience isn't just showing 💩 emoji – it's handling Arabic text flowing right-to-left while your English flows left-to-right without having an existential crisis. The silence after "what's that?" is the sound of technical debt being born.

Hebrew Code
Python Programming Debugging
1 month ago 106.9K views 0 shares
Hebrew Code
The cosmic joke here is that someone's code got completely mangled—likely by a text encoding issue or font rendering problem—turning their Python code into what looks like hieroglyphics. Instead of seeing this as a technical glitch, they've hilariously interpreted it as "Hebrew code" and are genuinely asking how to translate it back! The punchline hits when they ask "THEY HAVE ENGLISH CODING???" as if programming in English is the exotic alternative. It's the coding equivalent of driving on the wrong side of the road and wondering why everyone else is doing it backward. Fun fact: This is actually a perfect example of mojibake—when text is decoded using the wrong character encoding. Somewhere between saving and viewing this code, UTF-8 got interpreted as something else entirely, creating this beautiful disaster.

Me At An ASCII Party
Programming Networking
2 months ago 73.9K views 0 shares
Me At An ASCII Party
The technical pedant has entered the chat! Nothing screams "I'm fun at parties" like correcting people about character encoding standards at an ASCII art gathering. That person standing in the corner made of slashes and asterisks is silently judging everyone who casually calls it "ASCII art" when it should be "ISO-8859 art" — because obviously that's what keeps them up at night. It's the digital equivalent of being the guy who corrects people saying "Frankenstein" when they mean "Frankenstein's monster." Congratulations on being technically correct — the most insufferable kind of correct!

Encoding Not Supported
Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend
2 months ago 82.2K views 0 shares
Encoding Not Supported
THE ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY OF CHARACTER ENCODING! Someone tried to get "Happy Birthday" in Urdu on their cake, but the bakery's system had a COMPLETE MELTDOWN and just spewed question marks everywhere! This is the digital equivalent of asking your crush out and having them respond with "Error 404: Interest Not Found." Unicode support? Never heard of her! This cake is basically screaming "I TRIED TO BE MULTICULTURAL AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY STRING OF QUESTION MARKS." It's the perfect representation of every developer's nightmare when they forget to handle non-Latin characters and their app just FALLS APART in production!