Well, yes, I'd they know that texts have an encoding, how to detect it, and what functions to call to convert between them, I agree they don't need to understand how they actually work.
That said, I think the "we work in English" is a mistaken belief. Clients, employees, products, suppliers, etc, all will have names with non-ASCII characters.
My name is André; send me a letter or email with my name garbled, and I will mock your company publicly and, if you are a tech company, heavily consider dropping you for incompetence.
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Well, yes, I'd they know that texts have an encoding, how to detect it, and what functions to call to convert between them, I agree they don't need to understand how they actually work.
That said, I think the "we work in English" is a mistaken belief. Clients, employees, products, suppliers, etc, all will have names with non-ASCII characters.
My name is André; send me a letter or email with my name garbled, and I will mock your company publicly and, if you are a tech company, heavily consider dropping you for incompetence.