ASCII
American character encoding standard
Episodes
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#5487: Why Your Spreadsheet Mangles José's NameA deep dive into character sets, from ASCII to UTF-8, and why José becomes "José" in your spreadsheet.Main topic -
#5486: Why Hebrew URLs Turn Into Percent-Sign GibberishHebrew renders fine in the domain but explodes into percent-hex in the path. Two different standards explain the split.