Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when ...

Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

My problem is this: I have a description field in a web form. People are constantly pasting stuff in from Microsoft Word and the like. Curly quotes and trademarks are destroying my world.<BR><BR>Does ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

The current state of ‘ill-defined encoding’ creates unnecessary problems when working with the JDK codebase, an OpenJDK proposal says. Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in ...