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In the beginning was TXT

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In the beginning was TXT

A very short overview of the history of encodings, given at Vienna.rb on 2014-10-02

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October 02, 2014
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Transcript

  1. In the beginning was TXT

  2. !

  3. EBCDIC

  4. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC

  5. ASCII

  6. "#$%&

  7. None

  8. ä, ö, or å and Ø?

  9. Latin-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1

  10. Latin-*

  11. Windows code pages

  12. Then came the €

  13. (

  14. None

  15. Shift-JIS

  16. This sucks

  17. Unicode!

  18. Unicode!

  19. ✈️ (planes!)

  20. Basic Multilingual Plane

  21. Code Points

  22. U+0041 (LATIN SMALL LETTER A)

  23. Source: http://codepoints.net/U+0041

  24. Grapheme

  25. a a a a a a a

  26. Composite characters

  27. U+0065 U+0301 or U+00E9

  28. e+´ => é é

  29. ´ != ´

  30. Unicode… is not an encoding

  31. UTF-32

  32. UCS-2/UTF-16

  33. UTF-8

  34. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UnicodeGrow2b.png

  35. What does it look like?

  36. Codepoint Char ASCII Latin-1 ISO-8859-15 UTF-8 UTF-16 U+0041 A 0x41

    0x41 0x41 0x41 0x00 0x41 U+00C4 Ä - 0xc4 0xc4 0xc3 0x84 0x00 0xc4 U+20AC € - - 0xa4 0xe3 0x82 0xac 0x20 0xac U+C218 ࣻ - - - 0xec 0x88 0x98 0xc2 0x18 Encoding comparison Source: http://perlgeek.de/en/article/encodings-and-unicode

  37. Remember: Just because someone claims it’s UTF-8, doesn’t mean it

    is