the bug was fixed one hour ago-- looks like HN customer service worked again
I couldn't debug the code because of my name
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Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
the default windows encoding is UTF-16, a long time ago it was Windows-1252 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
Given the frequency with which Windows-12* mojibake occurs, people are either a number of holdouts still using Windows 98 SE, or there are a good number of paths in Windows that still use the non-Unicode encodings.
Windows supports Windows 98 API and it's more natural to use for some languages like C++. No change is planned there. Windows 98 API is also closer to Unix API, which can incentivize the programmer to use the same approach on windows and unix.
Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#263As of 2 hours before me writing this comment, JetBrains claims to have fixed the underlying issue [0]. Maybe they saw this post? :D
Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand your troubles, I'm from Spain so I have two family names and my given name has an accent. Now that I'm living in Japan, it's an endless source of fun. Regarding Chinese names and uncommon characters, Japan has the same problem. It's specially problematic for place names, with some kanji used to write the name of a single place in the whole country! I used to write in a place with such an obscure kanji th…
Railroad signs transcribe place names in hiragana. I imagine a place name should be recognizable in hiragana form.
This was in the inaka, with the closest train station 40 km away.
Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's a relevant recent EU court case of a person arguing with their bank that their name should be represented properly including the accented 'é', as the GDPR asserts a right to have mistakes of personal data corrected. The bank argued that it's impossible due to a legacy system using EBCDIC encoding and would be expensive to change. The appeals court affirmed that the customer has the right to get mistakes in the…
This is an insanely nightmarish precedent. We need to take computer systems less seriously. In a human-interface world, these issues are avoided thanks to simple human intuition.
I disagree. We are in this mess because nobody took it serious enough for long time.
Now that serious money is on the table, it might actually get solved and fixed once and for all.
We/us in tech had 30 years to fix our shit on our own. We didn't, that's the result.
Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#266Fun fact: If you have the exclamation mark (!) in your Windows username, Java will think it's the jar separator and `getResourceAsStream` will refuse to work. This broke many people's Minecraft installation over the years. The bug in question [0] was reported in 2001 and remains unsolved 20 years later. [0] https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4523159
I find the very idea of putting an exclamation mark on one's username and not expecting eventual problems to be quite curious.
Quite a lot of languages use ! or ? as a letter. For example in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Indigenous_langu...
Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#267> My username contains a "ł" character and because of it, this file cannot be processed properly.
What is so curious there? Some names contain all non-latin characters, and some softwares don't work with non-ASCII symbols. I just cannot understand why is it interesting.
Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#268Fun fact: If you have the exclamation mark (!) in your Windows username, Java will think it's the jar separator and `getResourceAsStream` will refuse to work. This broke many people's Minecraft installation over the years. The bug in question [0] was reported in 2001 and remains unsolved 20 years later. [0] https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4523159
I find the very idea of putting an exclamation mark on one's username and not expecting eventual problems to be quite curious.
well, a username can reasonably be limited to [a-zA-Z0-9_] but a name field should take Unicode
Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the record, it's a stark pronunciation difference as ł has drifted to a very different "w" sound
The fact most of the speakers of the language have switched to a different accent (by the way, I feel curious why) doesn't mean a fundamental difference. Same letters and whole same words are vocalized differently in the US and the UK (and even different regional accents within both countries) and nobody thinks about them as different letters/words. Ł still is the same letter, a direct counterpart to L in English, Ge…
> The fact most of the speakers of the language have switched to a different accent (by the way, I feel curious why)
It was a long process of L-vocalization [0] that started around XVI century. The first segment of the population to be affected by it were peasants (it is also one of the reasons why the original sound quality of «ł» survived relatively long among Polish artists in early XX century as a sign of professionalism, similarly to English’s Mid-Atlantic accent [1]).
I suspect that L-vocalization’s proliferation was aided by multiple wars, partitions and occupations that followed, which caused many waves of both natural and forced internal migration and disappearance of most dialectal differences.
According to [2](PL) the pronunciation of «ł» as /w/ was codified as the standard around XIX/XX in both informal and formal settings. There are still remaining populations using the old sound quality, but they are mostly confined to the areas in proximity to other Slavic languages.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-vocalization [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent [2]: http://www.dialektologia.uw.edu.pl/index.php?l1=leksykon&lid...
Re: I couldn't debug the code because of my name
#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find the very idea of putting an exclamation mark on one's username and not expecting eventual problems to be quite curious.
Quite a lot of languages use ! or ? as a letter. For example in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Indigenous_langu...
That looks like an example of languages using ? to represent a different but similar looking character.