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Why was ASCII needed?
With an encoding such as EBCDIC being in existence already (and being 8 bit to boot), what was the need to invent yet another encoding and a 7 bit one at that?
Why was ASCII invented and what ...
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What steps can I take to avoid character encoding issues in a web application?
In previous web applications I've built, I've had issues with users entering exotic characters into forms which get stored strangely in the database, and sometimes appear different or double-encoded ...
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Was API hooking done as needed for Stuxnet to work? I don't think so
Caveat: I am a political science student and I have tried my level best to understand the technicalities; if I still sound naive please overlook that.
In the Symantec report on Stuxnet, the authors ...
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How do I convert from 7-bit to 8-bit encoding in C? [closed]
Can any one here provide me an octet string function in C to convert from 7-bit encoding to 8-bit?
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what limitation will we face if each user-perceived character is assigned to one codepoint?
Hi all I was wondering what limitations will we have if Unicode had decided to assign one and only one codepoint to every user-perceived character?
Currently, Unicode has code-points that correspond ...
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Should I HTML encode all output from my API?
I am creating a RESTful JSON API to access data from our website where the content is in German.
A handful of the fields will return formatted HTML while most are single lines of text although they ...
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What is the Best Collation for Use in MySQL Tables?
I'm curious what is considered the standard today for use as the Collation of MySQL Tables?
I was told that Latin-1 was the best choice when I was beginning with MySQL, but came across this post from ...
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what is the advantage of choosing ASCII encoding over UTF8?
I'm suspecting that there is no advantage in choosing ASCII encoding over UTF8, since anything ASCII encoded would be exactly the same size as if it is UTF8 encoded and besides, UTF8 provides support ...
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Is UTF-16 fixed-width or variable-width? Why doesn't UTF-8 have byte-order problem?
Is UTF-16 fixed-width or variable-width? I got different results
from different sources:
From http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF:
UTF-16 stores Unicode characters in ...
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Does printing out numbers involve converting the numbers into characters?
In programming languages, when numbers (either integer, or real) are printed out, are they firstly converted to the codes of the readable characters that are meant to represent the numbers, and then ...
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Why doesn't everybody switch from Japanese-specific encodings to UTF-8?
At work I come accross a lot of Japanese text files in SHIFT-JIS and other encodings.
It causes many mojibake (unreadable character) problems for all computer users.
Why is not everybody switching ...
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Is it ok to use localized character encodings for code?
Is it ok to use a localized encoding (i.e. ISO-8859-15) instead of ANSI/UTF-8/some standard for code?
What when you have names that do not translate very well into english code? Or when your company ...
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Encoding issues from MySQL database to PHP page
So I've been working on a small, small side project to learn a bit more about PHP database interactions. I bought a small, cheap database of "Inspirational Stories" and set to work on turning it into ...
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Should character encodings besides UTF-8 (and maybe UTF-16/UTF-32) be deprecated?
A pet peeve of mine is looking at so many software projects that have mountains of code for character set support. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for compatibility, and I'm happy that text editors let ...
