Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

There may be times when you are working in the Linux terminal and suddenly see the “can’t set the locale” error and see some mysterious characters like ...

A procedure is described for the relatively efficient encoding of sequences of characters which have predecessor-successor selection rules. The procedure is shown to assign a unique integer to each ...

The euro sign (€) is a crucial symbol for anyone dealing with the euro currency, whether for business, travel, or everyday transactions. However, typing this symbol can sometimes be tricky, especially ...

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The current state of ‘ill-defined encoding’ creates unnecessary problems when working with the JDK codebase, an OpenJDK proposal says. Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in ...