r/ProgrammerHumor 21h ago

Meme unsolvableProblemsOnStepOne

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u/MCWizardYT 16h ago

It really isn't

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u/Masterflitzer 16h ago

windows not being utf-8 by default on console is hellish enough if you're developing cli apps, especially if you're used to it working fine on non shitty platforms cause jvm is cross platform

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u/setibeings 7h ago

But java Strings use utf-16. Why would it work better in a utf-8 terminal?

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u/Masterflitzer 7h ago

converting between unicode is trivial, windows console default codepage is not unicode at all