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 ...

Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have long suggested that given enough time, AI input prompts (like the ones used by ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot) would be exploited in ways that we have not yet imagined. I have experimented with ...

Microsoft Word, like all text-based programs, uses a numeric character code called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) for each alphabetic, numeric, and special character on ...

Jan 09, 2026 - Viktor Markopoulos - We often trust what we see. In cybersecurity, we are trained to look for suspicious links, strange file extensions, or garbled code. But what if the threat looked ...