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   by hashhash 10y ago

   Just to reinforce what you are saying, there were people doing this even in ancient Greece, see Plato's Gorgias. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1672
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   by hashhash 12y ago

   Locale information includes things like encodings to allow a human language to be stored as data. It is probably the case that the most common encoding is ASCII, with the most common modern encoding being UTF-8. If you're writing code
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   by hashhash 12y ago

   Is this any better than using pastebin? One may argue that banks are more trusted for storing money than pastebin is for data, but is there another reason?