“the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 reports its name as Microsoft⟪AE⟫ Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000, encoding the registered trademark symbol ® not as UTF-8 as required by the specification but in code page 1252” is a sentence that seems to have come straight from unix_surrealism
Leave it up to microsoft to screw up even something that simple.
You spelled Microsoft® wrong. 😂
How big is the company you’re working in?
In my experience that’s just a corporate thing.
This sounds like someone said, I only changed some text, we don’t even need another round of testing.
The stupid, old, irritating cycle of: You implement against a standard, and then you implement exceptions for third party users of the standard. 😔
But in this case it’s first-party, and they still had to make an exception
Raymond’s book is an amazing read and full of stories very much like this one.
