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by paxys 1726 days ago
I personally find timezones more annoying. At least with encoding once you figure things out it will work indefinitely. Timezones can simply change from under you with or without notice.
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You think timezones are simple, and then you realize this, when you try to implement them (in the US): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States#Boun...

(And that's not counting daylight savings time, and its varied observance!)

Unicode 14 just came out. If you are using collation, NFD, ... you need to update your libs.