#characterencoding — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #characterencoding, aggregated by home.social.
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📰 技育祭で引いた文字化けおみくじを解読してみた (👍 29)
🇬🇧 Decoding a garbled fortune slip from Geek Festival 2026 - a fun character encoding adventure
🇰🇷 기술 축제에서 받은 깨진 문자의 오미쿠지를 해독한 재미있는 도전기 -
«Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain #Unicode characters encoded in #UTF8. There’s another question, though: “Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”
This issue keeps coming up, so [ @paulehoffman and @timbray ] put together an individual-submission draft to the IETF and now (where by “now” I mean “two years later”) it’s been published as #RFC9839. It explains which characters are bad, and why, then offers three plausible less-bad subsets that you might want to use.»
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839 by @timbray
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Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibm-s-code-page-437/
#HackerNews #smallhouse #IBM #codepage437 #techhistory #characterencoding
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While part of me wants to find out why this odd character encoding situation crashes #perl, another part of knows that #characterencoding stuff is a big pit of misery and suffering and wasted time/life that you will never get back, so I'm just treating that crash as another way to debug tags in vorbis files.The oddest mystery is that someone managed to get a string without a COMMENT type container into a #vorbis meta data block, that's impressive, you really have to try to do that!
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Gothic characters on wayside cross?
#characterencoding #waysideshrine #waysidecross #Budaörs
