Tekniquelly correctMar 7
Whoa. UTF-8 is older now than ASCII was when UTF-8 was invented.
Show threadJonathan AddlemanMar 7
@tek
And yet, my bank still won't let me add a contact (for etransfers) with an accent in their name.
Show threadElena ``of Valhalla''
@jaddle @tek if it's sepa (or something else with the same restrictions) it's possible that they are still using an extremely restricted set of characters with just uppercase letters, digits and a small handful of punctuation, selected back when everything had to move between obsolete mainframes, that we are still stuck with today for compatibility reasons (yay :( )
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Show threadadamrice15h ago
@valhalla @jaddle @tek The computer I learned programming on was restricted to Rad-50 for file names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50
DEC RADIX 50 - Wikipedia

Show threadJonathan Addleman10h ago

@valhalla

@tek

I can understand a bank having lots of legacy code (hello COBOL!), but the ridiculous thing here is that the backend DOES support accents! I have pre-existing contacts with them from several years ago, but when they redid the front-end just recently, they broke it! No excuse!