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blog.fredrb.com
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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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www.joelonsoftware.com
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| | | | | Ever wonder about that mysterious Content-Type tag? You know, the one you're supposed to put in HTML and you never quite know what it should be? Did you ever get an email from your friends in Bulgaria with the subject line "? ? ?"? I've been dismayed to discover just how many software developers... | |
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adam.scherlis.com
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| | | | | Fun with mismatched encodings Mojibake is the garbled text that result from character-encoding errors. If youâ?ve seen text that looks like this â?" and Iâ?m sure you have â?" then youâ?ve seen mojibake. (You should be seeing something like this: If you see something else, this post may be a little confusing and you need... | |
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gregtatum.com
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| | | In part 1 of this article I covered the idea of creating character sets, and different strategies for encoding them. The article covered UTF-32 and UTF-16 encodings with the benefits and drawbacks of | ||
