There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Have you ever wondered how exactly a computer stores letters like A, B, C… or Chinese characters like 吃, or even ...

This simple web application allows you to determine whether a given character is an ASCII character or a Unicode character. It also provides the ASCII code and Unicode code point for the character.

Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...