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Character encoding and UTF-8 | Fredrb's Blog
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Programming with Unicode: a gentle introduction - Internal Pointers
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| | How not to get lost in a multilingual world.
| | fluffyandflakey.blog
Rooting out Gremlins - Fluffy and Flakey
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| | I've long been fascinated by gremlins in my text. In fact, a very long time ago I was interested in the phenomenon. Recently I've seen this creep up twice and figured it was about time I learned to explain how we get these garbled junk characters. You've seen them before; have you wondered why they...
| | benbrougher.tech
ASCII vs UTF-8 vs UTF-16 vs UTF-32 | benbrougher.tech
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| | What are all the different ASCII and UTF-x encodings and why do they matter?
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Inspecting Python functions | Aivars Kalv?ns
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| I have a piece of C++ code that calls user-defined functions implemented in Python. Instead of requiring all functions to have the same signature with 6 arguments, the C++ code inspects the function signature and passes only the arguments function accepts - 1, 3, or all 6 of them. I use the inspect module and getargspec function for that but it feels a bit wrong and bloated. So let's see how we can get the work done without the inspect module.