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# [Developers, Use UTF-8 as encoding for the sake of sanity](https://blog.gsilva.pro/developers-use-utf-8-as-encoding-for-the-sake-of-sanity?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Oh god, pay attention on your editor (eclipse is trolling you most of the time :-). Never... ever... save a file on a different encoding than UTF-8. If you really need that, good luck, on 99.999999999999999% of the cases don't screw this up, for the...

Jul 26, 2018 · 2 min read · blog.gsilva.pro  
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