Text encoding is a convoluted mess

Win-Vector Blog 2015-07-26

Summary:

Modern text encoding is a convoluted mess where costs can easily exceed benefits. I admit we are in a world that has moved beyond ASCII (which at best served only English, and even then without full punctuation). But modern text encoding standards (utf-x, Unicode) have metastasized to the point you spend more time working around … Continue reading Text encoding is a convoluted mess

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http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/07/text-encoding-is-a-convoluted-mess/

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Tags:

computer science

Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

07/26/2015, 10:31

Date published:

07/25/2015, 13:00