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What Every Programmer Needs To Know About Encodings

What Every Programmer Needs To Know About Encodings

Kunststube wrote this great introduction to text encoding. Ever wondered why your Word document sometimes starts with ÉGÉìÉRÅ[ÉfÉBÉìÉOÇÕìÔǵÇ≠ǻǢ? Well, encoding‘s why. Kunststube introduces you to the wonderful world of ASCII, WLatin, Mac Latin, and UTF-8, -16 and -32.

Read the original articla via http://kunststube.net/encoding/