There are no trustworthy standards bodies.
@tqbf @matthew_d_green As imperfect as Unicode is, I'm damn glad we still don't have random mixed 8-bit codepages.
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@tqbf@matthew_d_green As imperfect as W3C is, I'm damn glad we don't still have "Best viewed with MSIE 6.0!" -
@tqbf@matthew_d_green As imperfect as POSIX is, I'm glad we're finally starting to put#ifdef __FOO_OS__ to rest. -
@RichFelker@tqbf@matthew_d_green IEEE-754 is a mess, but better *in every way* than the previous status quo. -
@stephentyrone@tqbf@matthew_d_green Absolutely! Can't believe I forgot to mention IEEE-754 there.
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