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Comment by nine_k

1 day ago

In short, it runs a text preprocessor as the source text decoder (like you would decode from Latin-1 or Shift-JIS to Unicode).

Yeah I had totally forgotten about this. I remember seeing it around a bit in the python 2 days when UTF-8 wasn’t always assumed. The fact a ~macro system can be bolted on using this is impressive, hilarious, and shockingly terrible.