I work with a lot of programmers. They are definitely not pedants. I wish more of them were more "pedantic," in fact. I have never heard any of them refer to a "Unicode string" - they all say "UTF-8 string" which at least narrows it down to the encoding.

You also used the term "Unicrap" repeatedly in your earlier thread: I guess you are struggling to "get" Unicode. That's understandable; it can be confusing.

I think you are also confused about pedantry: it is not pedantic to refer to things by their correct name, actually.

As you well know, inaccurate spelling or syntax in code breaks the program. Why so cavalier about inter-human communication?

If I were your editor and I corrected your OP here so that your repeated misuse of the noun 'weight' was changed to what you really meant, the verb 'weigh,' is that being pedantic?

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^3: Context, pedantry and appropriate response. by 1nickt
in thread Context, pedantry and appropriate response. by BrowserUk

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