Text, strings and Unicode
The Eclectic Light Company @eclecticlight.co@web.brid.gy
ASCII and its variants, code pages for non-Latin languages, then Unicode brought three major formats with endian variants and normalisation forms.
The Eclectic Light Company @eclecticlight.co@web.brid.gy
ASCII and its variants, code pages for non-Latin languages, then Unicode brought three major formats with endian variants and normalisation forms.
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