The story of how I stopped saying 'Printing must be done in Excel' and reduced CSV back-and-forth and worries about character encoding issues

Even though the data is created in a spreadsheet, I export it to CSV and reopen it in Excel just for printing.Aren't you ...

Why does Japanese text get garbled? Organizing PowerShell's UTF-8, character encoding, and I/O

When I opened a text file in PowerShell, the Japanese characters turned into unrecognizable symbols.Even though it looked ...
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IE 10 screwing up characters with diacritics? Encoding issue?

here and there I waste my time replying to blog posts/comments on sites like Autoblog. Using IE 10 on Windows 8, I apparently can't enter non-latin or accented/diacritical characters. On this post I ...
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Character encoding issue with username

Hi, please correct my username! Details follow. I haven't used my Ars account in a while, and since the last time I logged in there has apparently been some kind of backend change (database migration?