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We apologize once again - this book was lying on our desk at the Borehole Archive for the last few months, and in all that time we never had a chance to get back to our office and get any deskwork done. We’re sure you know how frenzied and fast-paced library work can be, and how many tense and dangerous situations come up at the University of Iapetus on an hourly basis. Anyway, we’re having a bit of an eye-of-the-storm week here, so we finally found a moment to load this book into a message capsule and fire it onto an Earth-return trajectory. Sorry for the delay!
Generation of Transmissible Meme Complices within Limited Character Sets
Unknown Author — Polyplanar Publishing — 2003
Format: Publisher UTF-8 TXT
Language: English
Category: 604.223 (Technical Drawing, Hazardous Materials Technology, Groups of People)
Description: Though the drastically increased commonality of UTF-8 and other broad encodings has perhaps reduced the need for limited-character-set work in 2019, this older title still sees a reference here and there whenever a textual meme needs to be delivered on a medium that supports only a limited subset of the full Unicode space. Modern readers will recall that the declassification of the Bellman-Ming algorithm in the early 2010s transformed the scene by making ASCII-only memes cheap to generate from arbitrary UTF-8 source material, rendering much of the early chapters of this book outdated. The latter sections, however, which focus on more esoteric textual encodings, are still quite up-to-date, and this book still provides a delightfully accessible entry point into textual memetic transcoding that few other sources manage to equal.
Warnings: This material contains a very large number of minor cognitohazards and anomalous memes. While all of them are intended as harmless examples and none are capable of causing lasting harm or serious outbreaks, reader discretion is strongly advised, especially prior to driving, operating machinery, or attending high-pressure social functions. A professionally-memescrubbed version of the text is provided along with the original, but due to the nature of the subject matter, this version is not particularly useful on its own.
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