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[–] plistig@feddit.de 104 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beyoncé

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So... UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1? You have failed Unicode college >:(

[–] plistig@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

¯\_(ã )_/¯

print('¯\_(ツ)_/¯'.encode('u8').decode('l1'))
[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

And here I was typing out iso-8859-1 like a scrub to make sure I wasn't misremembering the encoding when doing the analogous thing in python...