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I would take this with a grain of salt. None of the programming languages I have used require this level of in-depth knowledge. Certainly not modern C++.
It’s still true that if you have a bunch of bytes and don’t know their encoding, you don’t really know what characters you have.
Did you see the date on the article?
No. I can only read date in the YYYY/MM/DD format.