- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
We have Unicode these days: blåhaj
Unicode in filenames? Are you crazy?!
Okay that was /s to some extent but I gotta rant, I’m totally convinced that there’s still new software today that completely trip over themselves when files or paths have non-ASCII characters, or sometimes even a space. Incompetence didn’t go anywhere.
Unicode in filenames can be a bad idea, since there are more than one way to achieve what looks like the same character. So matching patterns could fail if you think it’s one way, but it’s actually another representation in unicode.
I still use underscores for filenames, basically muscle memory at this point
Spaces in file names will always be fiddly though. It’ll work, but it’ll still be wrong, because arguments are space separated, and having spaced file names totally messes with that.
I try to just always put files names or paths into quotes in CLI or tie it to a variable in programming. This way it also accepts spaces and knows how to separate it from arguments.
I’m too lazy to memorize alt codes
Why you torture blahaj?
Why are we sttill kink shaming?
Blahaj cannot speak, therefore Blahaj cannot give consent.
It can’t say no either /s
You don’t need to tape archive it, it’s one thing
Yeah but you can
blahaj.exe.tar.gz
I feel so compressed.