Last week I held a talk at @boosterconf about the weird world of character encoding and the experience of having a name with characters outside the first 127 bytes of ascii. The video is available - https://vimeo.com/924291827

#utf8 #ebcdic #CP850 #CP1252

It arrived albeit #FedEx fucked up all #umlauts in my shipping address, even in two different ways:

Once they obviously took #UTF8 as #ISOLatin and once they seem to have taken one #8bit charset as another 8-bit charset, probably #ISOLatin1 as #CP850. 🙄 #schei_encoding #mojibake

@Venty once described systems that have such issues as #UmlautlyChallenged. 😉

But at least it arrived! I heard from a keyboard dealer that they stopped sending parcels to Europe with FedEx due to too much packet loss…

New pre-release of dos2ansi: v0.2

* Works on #Windows, win32 binary (cross-compiled on #FreeBSD) attached
* Selectable input #codepage (so far only #cp437, #cp850 and #cp858)
* Selectable output format, #utf8, #utf16 or #utf16le, with or without #BOM

Still a few things to add, e.g. use #termcap/#terminfo or Windows Console API for "color output" when applicable ... we will see 😎

https://github.com/Zirias/dos2ansi/releases/tag/v0.2