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If I had a dollar for every B2B software in my corp that screws up such basic thing...

Yet the box-ticker drones from IT procurement are content with vendors who assume we live in a world without diacritic marks, I guess. Using 8-bit character sets in 2022 is a "brown M&M's" [1] indicator for me. If they can't be bothered to use Unicode, what else they don't care about?

[1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232420

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Really worrying is when you run into something like a major Canadian bank where the online banking portal system rejects passwords longer than 14 characters and with a wide range of standard english punctuation marks in it, likely because they're storing the damned thing as a plaintext string in some mainframe database field on equipment/software from the 1980s.

It was like that up until very recently for some gargantuan banks.

IF it's TD, then it's AS/400. For reals.

The point of this article is that unicode isn't a "basic thing".

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