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Hi. Today I stumbled upon a problem with pipx run, where the python tool to run prints German Umlauts like "ü". Those didn't show up correctly in the terminal, although I knew that they did when I ran ...

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[EDIT: I opened this because I saw a redundancy in a paragraph in Reference / 2. Lexical analysis / 2.1 Line structure / 2.1.4 Encoding declarations. I neglected to explain the problem and instead ...

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The current state of ‘ill-defined encoding’ creates unnecessary problems when working with the JDK codebase, an OpenJDK proposal says. Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in ...