Everything is 0s and 1s to a computer. What a pattern of 0s and 1s encodes is decided by people–often arbitrarily. Over the years there have been attempts to standardize encodings but, for legacy reasons, older encodings are still valid.
The 0s and 1s that encode ’ in UTF-8 (a standardized encoding) are the same 0s and 1s that encode ’ in CP-1252 (a legacy encoding).
The � symbol is shown when the 0s and 1s don’t encode anything of meaning.
Sometimes your keyboard or program’s settings will use right single quote for apostrophes instead of a normal apostrophe. ’ you might notice how this one is straight and not bent a certain way. This setting is often called smart quotes.
I don’t think Lemmy supports media fields in comments (though I’ve only skimmed the API, I could be wrong) just on posts. I usually use Postimages for hosting images for comments.
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What?
This is torture to do to a programmer…report people torturing others to the authorities
Some hackers DoS the code. This guy DoS’s the corporate process.
Remember to throw in “=” at the start just to toy with the poor sap who has to manipulate the results in excel
Why is it that whenever something is spitting out junk data, those specific characters are involved?
� is used to represent an invalid character, so it makes sense that it’d appear often when bad data is being rendered (or good data is being rendered improperly).
Everything is 0s and 1s to a computer. What a pattern of 0s and 1s encodes is decided by people–often arbitrarily. Over the years there have been attempts to standardize encodings but, for legacy reasons, older encodings are still valid.
The 0s and 1s that encode ’ in UTF-8 (a standardized encoding) are the same 0s and 1s that encode ’ in CP-1252 (a legacy encoding).
The � symbol is shown when the 0s and 1s don’t encode anything of meaning.
’=e2 80 99(3 bytes)’=e28099(3 separate bytes)Good to see it “spelt out” like that
Right single quote (’) in UTF-8 (https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2019) has the same bytes as ’ in cp1252 (which is more or less “ASCII” if we’re doing ELI5). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
Sometimes your keyboard or program’s settings will use right single quote for apostrophes instead of a normal apostrophe. ’ you might notice how this one is straight and not bent a certain way. This setting is often called smart quotes.
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Your Lemmy client appears to have a bug.
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Seeing this actually sent a small wave of dread through my body
When I see �, I just assume the user or another dev is using a non-standard keyboard, or my fonts aren’t up to date
When I see this shit, I lose all blood flow to the brain and then just collapse
Wdym? flamingo_pinyata’s explaination was quite useful, I wish somebody had told me that long ago and it’s still going to let me save so much time.
You are evil
If you think that these days resumes actually reach developers, I have an AI company to sell you.
👺 May your socks always be wet.
Be sure to use the image upload field too
How do I do that? Very new to lemmy. Using Boost. Thanks in advance!
I don’t think Lemmy supports media fields in comments (though I’ve only skimmed the API, I could be wrong) just on posts. I usually use Postimages for hosting images for comments.
cope
Idk but Boost has a button for adding pictures to comments.
That looks like the media endpoint in action, all right.
Embed the image using markdown: 
You can add an image to a comment or post like this
Junior dev: Oh no what is that symbol? Let me examine the code closely to find out
Senior dev: The form still works. Fuck you.
Who hurt you!?
Who didn’t?
See you in hell
Thanks, {{ firstName }}
Good Ole Bobby tables.
That’s pretty funny! ���