Terence Eden personal blog
Unicode is hard
In the last couple of months, I've been seeing the ú symbol on British receipts. Why? 1963 - ASCII In the beginning* was ASCII. A standard way for computers to exchange text. ASCII was originally designed with 7 bits - that means 128 possible symbols. That ought to be enough for everyone, right? Wrong! ASCII is the…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| May 29, 2017 | Unicode is hard by edent | 337 | 194 |
