A few years back I put all my conferences material in a GitHub repository https://github.com/jpluimers/Conferences/. There were a lot directories and files so I didn’t pay much attention to the initial check-in list. The files had been part of copy.com syncing between Windows and Mac machines.
I choose a Mac because it is closer to a Linux machine than Widows so I expected no encoding trouble (as git has a Linux origin: it “was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel“).
Boy I was wrong:
Recently I cloned the repository in a different place and found out a few strange things:
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