Hacker NewsWhy is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibm-s-code-page-437/
#HackerNews #smallhouse #IBM #codepage437 #techhistory #characterencoding
The Medley Interlisp ProjectLike other computing and network 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:
Luke DornyA/B Test Oops/Whoops
#webdev #characterEncoding #UTF8 #variables #conditional #coding
https://time.com/7094870/beehero-pollination-insight-platform/
Gabi Wonghttps://lbcone.hkust.edu.hk/booktalk/?p=211
our next talk at #HKUSTLibrary , fully looking forward to it and feeling excited to meet professor Lu Qin #cjk #CharacterEncoding #asiancharacters
our next talk at #HKUSTLibrary , fully looking forward to it and feeling excited to meet professor Lu Qin #cjk #CharacterEncoding #asiancharacters
MattPounsettI really love @dylanbeattie's talks.
I've seen the previous version of this that he references at the start, but watched this anyway, because it's a great talk.
Life as a sysadmin has taught me a lot of the lessons in here, but there's SO MUCH more background covered than I ever knew. So, still very useful.
Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022
smxiIf you have been spared #characterencoding hell, then consider yourself fortunate. Every time I start to dig into it, I marvel at how all this mess could have been avoided with just a little foresight, basically as soon as ascii only stopped being the norm, just create a container format for any text files, which would work the same as any other media containers, basically have a file header, that says, for example, this is iso-8859-1, cp-1252, utf8, or whatever. Would've removed all ambiguity.
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While part of me wants to find out why this odd character encoding situation crashes #perl, another part of knows that #characterencoding stuff is a big pit of misery and suffering and wasted time/life that you will never get back, so I'm just treating that crash as another way to debug tags in vorbis files.
The oddest mystery is that someone managed to get a string without a COMMENT type container into a #vorbis meta data block, that's impressive, you really have to try to do that!
Coralie Mercier