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Eldritch data encoding standards 

How bad should I feel for having known for years that UTF-EBCDIC is a thing?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCD

re: Eldritch data encoding standards 

Speaking of, since I saw this going around as well:

"EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR" (Terence Eden’s Blog, 2021):
shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdi

"Court of Appeal of Brussels - 2019/AR/1006" (GDPRhub, 2019):
gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Cou

re: Eldritch data encoding standards 

@arielmt yeah like... we-personally knew about UTF-EBCDIC way back when we lived in socorro!

Eldritch data encoding standards 

@arielmt I'm reminded of the order of monks in The Fifth Element, diligently passing down this secret knowledge.

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