Add to ORKGASCII was developed when every computer was an island and over 35 years before the first emoji appeared. In this episode, we will take a look at how Unicode and UTF-8 expanded ASCII for ubiquitous use while maintaining backwards compatibility
Data compression is important in the computing process because it helps to reduce the space occupied...
Plain text data consists of a sequence of encoded characters or “code points” from a given standard ...
We often represent text using Unicode formats (UTF-8 and UTF-16). The UTF-8 format is increasingly p...
The Unicode Standard is the de facto “universal” standard for character-encoding in nearly all moder...
Regardless of the numeric base, scientific notation breaks numbers into three parts: sign, mantissa,...
All areas of computing, from data compression to web design, from networking to digital image storag...
Across the world's languages and cultures, most writing systems predate the use of computers. In the...
This essay looks at the history of digital text encoding, from the early and very limited simple alp...
Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assignin...
The world of character encoding in 2010 has changed significantly since TEI began in 1987, thanks to...
This chapter first briefly reviews the history of character encoding. Following from this is a discu...
Having learned how to program bitwise operations, it is now time to flex our bit bashing muscles by ...
In a previous post, we covered various aspects of the Unicode character set. It's now time to get re...
As far as current reality and emerging trends in global management practices is concern, the use and...
An argument for a new approach to text encoding, depicting ASCII/EBCDIC as pathetic and Unicode as g...
Data compression is important in the computing process because it helps to reduce the space occupied...
Plain text data consists of a sequence of encoded characters or “code points” from a given standard ...
We often represent text using Unicode formats (UTF-8 and UTF-16). The UTF-8 format is increasingly p...
The Unicode Standard is the de facto “universal” standard for character-encoding in nearly all moder...
Regardless of the numeric base, scientific notation breaks numbers into three parts: sign, mantissa,...
All areas of computing, from data compression to web design, from networking to digital image storag...
Across the world's languages and cultures, most writing systems predate the use of computers. In the...
This essay looks at the history of digital text encoding, from the early and very limited simple alp...
Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assignin...
The world of character encoding in 2010 has changed significantly since TEI began in 1987, thanks to...
This chapter first briefly reviews the history of character encoding. Following from this is a discu...
Having learned how to program bitwise operations, it is now time to flex our bit bashing muscles by ...
In a previous post, we covered various aspects of the Unicode character set. It's now time to get re...
As far as current reality and emerging trends in global management practices is concern, the use and...
An argument for a new approach to text encoding, depicting ASCII/EBCDIC as pathetic and Unicode as g...
Data compression is important in the computing process because it helps to reduce the space occupied...
Plain text data consists of a sequence of encoded characters or “code points” from a given standard ...
We often represent text using Unicode formats (UTF-8 and UTF-16). The UTF-8 format is increasingly p...
