In russian segment of internet, various cyrillic encodings (win, dos, mac, koi-8) were a huge problem, and only UTF-8 finally solved it long before emojis became a thing.
It is known that developers from English-speaking countries are generally oblivious to encoding problems. Probably they could get by on ASCII far longer than the rest of the world, so no wonder that they might confuse cause and effect in this case.
It is known that developers from English-speaking countries are generally oblivious to encoding problems. Probably they could get by on ASCII far longer than the rest of the world, so no wonder that they might confuse cause and effect in this case.