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Character Encodings

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

Q: When a program reads input, what is it reading? A: Bytes. i.e. not characters. If you want characters, you have to convert from one to the other. Thanks to decades of ASCII and Latin-1, with one-to-one byte to character … Continue reading →

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Nutters

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Dominic Mitchell

I used to work with Tony Finch. Great guy. But the chap’s clearly got a few screws loose: Signal Mishandling.

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