Latest posts tagged with #CharacterEncoding on Bluesky
Ever wonder how your text turns into 0s and 1s? Dive deep into character encoding, ASCII, and UTF-8. Understand the magic behind all digital communication.
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#BinaryCode #CharacterEncoding #ASCII
Auch wenn Digitalität beim #DOT2026 eher marginalisiert wird. Ist zu meiner Freude heute mein seit langem im Publikationsprozess steckender CLIO Guide zur Digitalisierung des Kulturerbes der Gesellschaften des Globalen Südens online gegangen. Wer etwas über die repräsentative Macht monolingualer […]
«Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain #Unicode characters encoded in #UTF8. There’s another question, though: “Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”
This issue keeps coming up, so […]
6/14 Character Encoding: @mperham spotted encoding issues like "We’ve Got a Panic!" ⚠️ @aaronmdjones notes missing charset info. @nyanpasu64 is confused by Firefox's Windows-1252 interpretation. #CharacterEncoding #UTF8 #WebDev
Like other systems developed at Xerox, Interlisp-D supported XCCS (Xerox Character Code Standard), a 16-bit character encoding released in the 1980s. XCCS predated and influenced Unicode. This is version 2.0 of the standard:
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#CharacterEncoding #xerox #retrocomputing
