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		akamaka on Aug 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit’s database has two tables (2012) What made my implementation disastrous turned out to be that there was no enforcement of string encodings, and users started to see all kinds of garbled text.

sedatk on Aug 10, 2022 [–]

One of my best decisions was to start out ASCII-only. It helped me manage that mess longer. :)

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