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summary
Argues that “plain text” is a myth and shows concrete failures: ASCII’s 7-bit limits, IBM code page 437 hacks, and SQL Server collation surprises that reorder city lists; demonstrates Java normalization (NFC/NFD/NFKC/NFKD) and how UTF-8 vs UTF-16 mismatches produce garbled Chinese when a dropped byte in a network stream flips endianness; recounts passport and airport trouble from Å/å and the license-plate trick encoded as pike matchbox that exposes hidden assumptions.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Start
- 3:06Plain Text
- 3:42Three Challenges
- 6:22Five Symbol Trinary Encoding
- 6:54Samuel Morse
- 9:05Tour of Ascii
- 10:16Horizontal Tabs
- 13:24Alphabet
- 15:53Code Page
- 17:18Cyrillic Alphabet Code
- 21:13Unicode Consortium
- 33:53Why Are Our Windows Event Logs Being Flipped from Big End to Little End
- 35:17Utf-8
- 36:28Emoji
- 39:42Flag of the Republic of China
- 41:48Vienna Convention on Road Traffic
