Hacker News with Generative AI: Encoding

Show HN: 100.st – Dev utilities I built for format conversions and encoding (100.st)
100.st is your all-in-one developer toolkit, offering seamless encoding, IP generation, format conversions (XML, YAML, JSON), and UUID creation to enhance productivity.

Development Tools, Encoding, Format Conversion, Productivity

33 points by abdelbkk 19 days ago | 22 comments

Branchless UTF-8 Encoding (cceckman.com)
Can you encode UTF-8 without branches?

Encoding, UTF-8, Programming

183 points by vortex_ape 126 days ago | 42 comments

The WTF-8 Encoding (simonsapin.github.io)
WTF-8 (Wobbly Transformation Format − 8-bit) is a superset of UTF-8 that encodes surrogate code points if they are not in a pair. It represents, in a way compatible with UTF-8, text from systems such as JavaScript and Windows that use UTF-16 internally but don’t enforce the well-formedness invariant that surrogates must be paired.

Encoding, UTF-8, JavaScript, Windows, Programming

44 points by pabs3 179 days ago | 16 comments

Charset="WTF-8" (xn--stpie-k0a81a.com)
This value is not valid

Encoding, Web Development, Character Sets

282 points by edent 180 days ago | 452 comments

Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page (nullprogram.com)
Windows paths have been WTF-16-encoded for decades, but module names in the import tables of Portable Executable are octets. If a name contains values beyond ASCII — technically out of spec — then the dynamic linker must somehow decode those octets into Unicode in order to construct a lookup path. There are multiple ways this could be done, and the most obvious is the process’s active code page (ACP), which is exactly what happens.

Windows, Operating Systems, Programming, Encoding, Code Pages

149 points by signa11 228 days ago | 52 comments

In MySQL, never use "UTF8". Use "utf8mb4" (medium.com)
Today’s bug: I tried to store a UTF-8 string in a MariaDB “utf8”-encoded database, and Rails raised a bizarre error:

MySQL, Databases, Programming, Encoding, Errors

21 points by fanf2 228 days ago | 2 comments

Unicode shenanigans: Martine Ã©crit en UTF-8 (poisson.chat)
On my feed aggregator haskell.pl-a.net, I occasionally saw posts with broken titles like this (from ezyang’s blog):

Unicode, Encoding, Programming, Haskell, Blogging

58 points by 082349872349872 230 days ago | 26 comments

FFmpeg 7.1 release: a tons of codecs (jbkempf.com)
FFmpeg 7.1 is released today: a major release with numerous features that nevertheless maintains API compatibility with 7.0. it features a full native VVC decoder, a new MV-HEVC decoder, a new LC-EVC decoder, a new xHE-AAC decoder, it finishes the IAMF decoder and it also adds Vulkan hardware encoding, VVC encoding, ARM64 and RISC-V optimizations and other hardware accelerations.

Software, Video, Open Source, Encoding, New Releases

167 points by jbk 235 days ago | 46 comments

The absolute minimum you must know about Unicode and encodings (joelonsoftware.com)

Unicode, Encoding, Programming

15 points by halb 310 days ago | 2 comments

UTF-8 Everywhere (utf8everywhere.org)

Encoding, Standards, Web Development

12 points by throw0101d 352 days ago | 3 comments

How to chop off bytes of an UTF-8 string to fit into a small slot and look nice (plix.at)

String Manipulation, Encoding, Programming, Optimization

86 points by domm 353 days ago | 61 comments

llIlI.lI: a URL shortener using only I/l to encode domains (llili.li)