When working with text files on Windows, you may sometimes be troubled by garbled text or differences in character ...

When you open a CSV file, the Japanese characters are unreadable. Even if you look up "convert to UTF-8" or "add a BOM," it ...

It all started as a JFS bug report. The JFS filesystem, it seems, gets upset when user space passes it file names encoded in the UTF-8 format. Rather than create or open a file with the name as given, ...

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QR codes have been with us for a long time now, and after passing through their Gardenesque hype cycle of inappropriate usage, have now settled down to be an important and ubiquitous part of life. If ...

A business writes a 150-character appointment reminder, adds one emoji to make it friendlier, and discovers that ...

You say that the only practical choices for character encodings are ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. In fact, there is a vast range of encodings that will work (basically any encoding that doesn't use NUL and '/ ...