A collection of tests I did for Windows and Linux to test UTF-8 encoding and the ability to correctly display and use Unicode characters. Mainly a save-state for myself if I forgot how to deal with ...

/* These are five and six bytes so they are rejected at the first byte. */ EXPECT (kuhn_4_1_4, UTF8_BAD_LEADING_BYTE); EXPECT (kuhn_4_1_5, UTF8_BAD_LEADING_BYTE ...

Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII ...

If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

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 ...

In English, letters with accents (diacritics) are pretty rare. Since Midæval times, diacritics have apparently fallen into disfavor. These days, people would rather cooperate than coöperate and are no ...

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors. These ...