Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

Decoding Unicode in this video explores the growth and history of Unicode, including a chart remade from John Cook's post. It covers the debut of ASCII, the evolution of Unicode, and insights into ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...