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How do I do that? Very new to lemmy. Using Boost. Thanks in advance!
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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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Seeing this actually sent a small wave of dread through my body
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.
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
Your Lemmy client appears to have a bug.
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Good Ole Bobby tables.
That’s pretty funny! ���

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.
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.
👺 May your socks always be wet.
If you do this, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
The special hell.
You are evil
Some hackers DoS the code. This guy DoS's the corporate process.
I feel like saying nothing but undefined is worse.
If you're reading this, you probably live in a country that is a party to United Nations Convention Against Torture.
If your company is allowing this, please contact your government or another member state.
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See you in hell
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.
Must be the updated version of ~~~~####3$3$$%^^~~~! NO CARRIER
wow this is a good joke’ wonder if it'll work
You'd need to put ’ (specifically) in place of a quotation mark. That is the cp1252 encoding of right single quote in utf 8.
"Wonder if it’ll work?"
This doesn’t makes any sense!
At least where I work, the developers who actually wrote the code would probably never see it. We have service staff that deal with an initial problems reported from customers. They'd likely figure out someone actually entered those values.
You must have exceptionally competent first-level support.
They are quite well seasoned. But it's also worth noting they are developers as well because the job usually has you debugging things or writing code that needs to be run for the specific customer. Not a large amount of code, but just things that end up being specific to a customer.
And if they have to come to a developer that actually works on the product, it's usually a pain to try and figure out what is going on. Thankfully, this is very uncommon.
is there a decnet found satan sub around here?
I know what I'll be doing April 1st 🤣
Who hurt you!?
Remember to throw in "=" at the start just to toy with the poor sap who has to manipulate the results in excel
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