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by brnt 2308 days ago
The argument to do it is it democratizes users with their scripts around the world (and solve the issue of having 'the wrong' quote). Normalization solves the latter. It's really solved, but you would never know if you live exclusively on the command line. Which I think is unfortunate.
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I disagree, it simply tells everyone they are wrong and the "normalized" one is the right one.

Oh, you used foo and föö as variable names, too bad those are the same now by normalization.

> It's really solved, but you would never know if you live exclusively on the command line. Which I think is unfortunate.

Tone down the condescension and insults, please.