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Nic Barker Explains ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8 https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/nic-barker-explains-ascii-unicode-and-utf-8/
#SoftwareHacks #ASCII #Unicode #UTF8

#TIL about macOS and weird #UTF8 issues https://gist.github.com/JamesChevalier/8448512. It took me hours to understand why a 'é' was rendered with the wrong font in iOS and macOS with Safari.

To be honest, #Firefox did not have the issue, much smarter.

Also, I think the #WindowManager needs to support #UTF8 natively, so the title bar doesn't show #bakemoji when viewing a page with #Japanese. Not sure why, but on my #Gentoo box, #Fluxbox does not show Japanese in the title bar.

Zahl des Tages: „Fast 4.000 Mini-Bildchen verfügbar

Falls ihr euch fragt, wieviel verschiedene Emojis der Unicode-Standard mittlerweile insgesamt umfasst: Mit der kommenden Version 18 werden dies voraussichtlich 3.972 sein. Die meisten Nutzer werden nur die wenigsten davon im Alltag verwenden.“

#emoji #utf8
https://www.iphone-ticker.de/emoji-18-leuchtturm-zusammengekniffene-augen-und-meteor-auf-der-warteliste-270988/

Es ist das Jahr 2026, #utf8 in Ordnern und Dateinamen gleicht bei erstaunlich viel Software immer noch einem Hackerangriff.

Lustigerweise beschwerte der Kollege mit seinem Mac sich, das da was nicht geht 🤔.

Ну всё, пора закапывать UTF-8

Здравствуйте, меня зовут Дмитрий Карловский и я... серийный убийца устоявшихся стандартов. Сегодня я выследил и нанёс критический урон UTF-8. И сейчас я расскажу, как я его переиграл и уничтожил новым стандартом кодирования текста — Unicode Compact Format . No, God! Please, No, NO!

https://habr.com/ru/articles/983042/

#utf8 #utf16 #utf32 #ucs2 #ucs4 #scsu #bocu1 #utfc #ucf #$mol

Text, strings and Unicode

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/03/text-strings-and-unicode/

<p>Plain text might seem simple, but no computer text is both plain and simple. Before the adoption of Unicode, there was a great deal more than ASCII, and Unicode hasn’t turned out to be any better. Here I’ll refer not to text, but to <em>strings</em> of characters from which non-styled text is composed.</p>
<h4>Before Unicode</h4>
<p>Original ASCII was only 7-bit, to reduce the cost of its transmission, as that was deemed sufficient to encode all the characters necessary for Roman/Latin alphabets. Those 128 characters, including a NUL of 00, were standardised in 1963, and were soon being specialised for different alphabets and extended for particular purposes. Among those is Mac OS Roman, which includes a full 8-bit character set of 256 and set the standard for Classic Mac OS.</p>
<p>At the same time that ASCII was being standardised, IBM was devising its own 8-bit standard EBCDIC encoding that was popular on its mainframe computers and those of other manufacturers. Fortunately few using early Macs came into contact with it, and its incompatibilities with ASCII.</p>
<p>In 1987 ISO standard 8859 was published in a series of parts, defining 8-bit character sets based on the ASCII original, catering for languages including ISO Latin 1 (in part 1, or ISO 8859-1), Latin/Cyrillic (8859-5), and others. Microsoft diverged to its own standards for Windows, in what’s generally known as Windows-1252 or Code Page 1252, over the period 1985-98.</p>
<p>Those encoding st

A small collection of text-only websites

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/

A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative.

Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt

Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle, but the joy of the web is that there are no gatekeepers. People can try new concepts and, if enough people join in, it becomes normal. I'm not saying the plain-text is the best web experience. But it is an experience. Perfect if you like your browsing fast, simple, and readable. There are no cookie banners, pop-ups, permission prompts, autoplaying videos, or garish colour schemes.

I'm certainly not the first person to do this, so I thought it might be fun to gather a list of websites which you browse in text-only mode. If you know of any more - including your own site - please drop a comment in the box!

Terence Eden's blog - add .txt to any URl.
Daring Fireball - add .text to any URl.
Zach Flowers - replace .html with .txt.
Fabien Benetou's PIM - add ?action=source to any URl.
M0YNG - add .txt to any URl.
Gwern - add .md to any URl or send an HTTP Accept for Markdown.
Dan Q's textplain.blog - the entire blog is plain text!
Matt Hobbs - there is a feed of plaintext which allows you to read recent posts.
Bananas Playground - add index.txt to any post. Also works with index.md.
Jorvik Systems - change .html to .md for Markdown.
Max Glenister's blog - add .txt to any post's URl.
Philipp Dubach's notes - add .txt to any post's URl.
Derick Rethans' blog - add .txt to any post's URl.
Ricardson's blog - add .txt to any post's URl.
elle's blog - text mode only available via curl elle.sh/blog.
Benji.dog - add .txt to any note's URl.

If you'd like to add a site, please get in touch. The rules are simple - content which has the MIME type of text/plain. No HTML, no multimedia, no RTF, no XML, no ANSI colour escape sequences.

Emoji are fine though; emoji are cool.

#blogging #blogs #text #unicode #utf8

UTF-8 is everywhere in modern software. Unfortunately, clear explanations of how it works and why it matters are quite rare, even if those should really be part of every "intro to programming" course. Most courses just deal with text processing by saying "here is the ASCII table, every letter is mapped to 1 byte, and texts are just arrays of letters" like we're stuck in the 90's.

This is the best explanation I've seen about #UTF8, #UTF16 and #Unicode: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vpSkBV5vydg . I highly recommend watching it if you write software but still have doubts about how "💩" is represented in memory.

#computerprogramming #programming #compsci #learnprogramming #emoji #emojis #emoticon

UTF-8 fail from the Möbelix store on Karlauergürtel. #utf8

Receipt from Möbelix store on Karlauergürtel. The store name shows up as MÃ¶ELIX and the street as KARLAUERGÃŒRTEL

@catsalad start a petition to free Comic Sans under #ccby4 so we can make it full #utf8 compatible, and add emotions. Then I will grant you my vote.

#utf8 support in the time of our lord 2025

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/andrewrk/statuses/114400778284121545

Difference between #utf8 and #unicode explained under 5 minutes :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90D9irbc04

I actually learned something, was stuck since 15+ years with "just fucking use UTF8", although it's still the answer, but now i better understand why.

Explainer: Text formats

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/28/explainer-text-formats/

$<p><code>textutil</code>, and Textovert its wrapper, convert between nine different formats, most of them in widespread use for documents that are largely based on text. This article explains a little about each of them, and its sequel tomorrow looks at how PDF differs. In each case, I give an example file size for a document containing the words<br /> <code>This is a test.</code><br /> in a total of 15 characters.</p> <h4>Plain text</h4> <p>Conventionally, plain text files in macOS are most usually encoded using Unicode UTF-8, requiring just 15 bytes for the hex bytes<br /> 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73 74 2e. Of course that contains no font or layout information, just the raw content.</p> <h4>Rich Text (RTF)</h4> <p>This was introduced and its specification developed by Microsoft during the late 1980s and 90s, for cross-platform interchange, primarily between its own products. Support for this in Mac OS X came in Cocoa and its rich text editor TextEdit, inherited from NeXTSTEP. The format contains two main groups of features, styled text with fonts, and simple layout that has been extended to include the embedding of images and other non-text content.</p> <p>RTF files consist of text, originally ASCII but now with Unicode support. Although not actually a mark-up language, its source code appears similar.</p> <p>Each RTF file opens with the ‘magic’ characters <code>{\rtf</code> introducing information about conformity of the code. Following that is a pre$

#unicode people, pls help!

https://kolektiva.social/@licho/115595823010390153

#egipt #hieroglyphs #unicode #utf8

This may interest programmers. It a version of my UTF-8 encode/decoder that I contributed to Rosetta Code.

It is VERIFIED. It requires proofs of correct values.

https://pastebin.com/q6pV2FvG

#programming #Unicode #utf8 #ats #ats2

MIST1025/MC_FRESHER-DHGZDFH

Mistigram: In case you were considering gambling with the fate of your eternal soul, MC Fresher drew us this endless animated UTF-8 GIF animation loop of a hapless stickman being tormented eternally in flaming perdition. This piece was included in last month’s spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

#demon #devil #durdraw #halloween #hell #mcFresher #mist1025 #utf8

Fatty.
#ansi #ansiart #ansiartist #textmodeart #textmodeartist #textmode #unicodeart #unicode #utf8art #utf8 #durdraw #darkdraw #retrogaming #retrogames

久しぶりに自分のホームページを更新。
ＭｙＳＱＬにあるｕｔｆ８ｍｂ４、この「４」が実際に見られるようサービスを改良しました。
こちらのサービスで絵文字を入力するとｕｔｆ８の４バイトが見られます。
絵文字のバイト列を表示する世界唯一のサービスです・・・とか言っとけば親切な人が先駆者を教えてくれるハズ。 #utf8 #utf8mb4 #fedibird
絵文字を含む文字列を分割 - サービス - ルモーリン https://www.lemorin.jp/service/0e_split_char.html

[Перевод] Освоение Unicode в Java: создаём на Quarkus REST API, готовый к глобальной аудитории

В этом руководстве мы разберем непонятности вокруг Unicode и узнаем, как строить надёжные, интернациональные Java-приложения. Разберём теорию, укажем на подводные камни, а затем соберём «Глобальный сервис приветствий» на Quarkus, который переживёт весь хаос реального текста. К концу статьи вы разберётесь с тем, – как устроен Unicode и как Java на самом деле хранит текст; – почему длина строки и перебор символов сложнее, чем кажется; – как нормализация предотвращает неприятные несоответствия; – как настроить REST-сервис и базу данных для безопасной работы с Unicode. Unicode без боли

https://habr.com/ru/companies/otus/articles/956720/

#unicode #Quarkus #Java #UTF8 #UTF16 #графемные_кластеры #нормализация #nfc #сортировка_по_локали

#utf8

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