ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard used for representing text in computers, communication equipment, and other devices that use text. Developed ...

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 ...

The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code set ...

may be invisible, but they play an important role in how your code works across platforms. This blog explains EOL characters, their ASCII codes, how Python handles them, and how to avoid common bugs ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...