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The Backwards Compatibility of Text
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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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Automatically Detecting Text Encodings in C++
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| | Consider the lowly text file. This text file can take on a surprising number of different formats. The text could be encoded as ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (little or big-endian), ...
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Character encoding and UTF-8 | Fredrb's Blog
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| | Character encoding and UTF-8 Here are some quick facts I learned about character encoding, ASCII and UTF-8: You need to know the encoding of any text, otherwise it's impossible to decipher the message (although it's common for applications to assume the encoding). ASCII standard character set uses 7 bits only (0x00:0x7F range). This allows for 128 character only. The upper 128 positions (0x7F:0xFF) can be used by other encodings that preserve the first 128 ASCII characters and add new characters. There are many 8bit charsets that use the same first 7bits from ASCII. Unicode provides a unique code for every character, regardless of the language. This might not be entirely true. A combination of Unicode values can map to a single character. Additionally, there...
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Python behind the scenes #9: how Python strings work
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| In 1991 Guido van Rossum released the first version of the Python programming language. About that time the world began to witness a major change...