Hacker News with Generative AI: Character Encoding

Mojibake (wikipedia.org)
Mojibake (Japanese: 文字化け; IPA: [mod͡ʑibake], 'character transformation') is the garbled or gibberish text that is the result of text being decoded using an unintended character encoding.
Character Encoding, Text Encoding, Computer Science, Japan, Language
4 points by indrora 28 days ago | 0 comments
What has case distinction but is neither uppercase nor lowercase? (microsoft.com)
If you go exploring the Unicode Standard, you may be surprised to find that there are some characters that have case distinction yet are themselves neither uppercase nor lowercase.
Unicode, Programming, Case Sensitivity, Text, Character Encoding
18 points by epilys 76 days ago | 4 comments
What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve? (stackexchange.com)
Character Encoding, Programming, Computer Science, ISO-8859-1, Windows 1252
49 points by azeemba 204 days ago | 75 comments