Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Never Use Emojis In Your File Names" video.

  1. It happens easily when using tools like yt-dlp. It can break things pretty well like some files become invisible over samba (or maybe the vifs implementation in vlc, I forget). Fortunately it can be told to use a restricted character set which makes things ugly but at least they work.
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  2. It's generally better to harden code to handle it though because you're going to run across it sooner or later. Not taking care to handle input properly is how SQL injection attacks are born. But yeah, for quicky get-the-job-done scripts, it's easier to keep it simple. Just be careful of scope creep.
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  3. I'm not a huge fan of emojis as characters but they characters they are and so should be handled appropriately. What this indicates to me is that a boneheaded decision was likely made somewhere else.
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