Encoding

Links
​Dark corners of Unicode​
​Let’s Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points​
​UTF-8 – “The most elegant hack” (2013)​
​UTF-8 Everywhere (HN)
​Not everything is UTF-8 (2020) (Lobsters)
​Archie Markup Language (ArchieML) - Structured text format optimized for human writability.
​Unidecode - Lossy ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
​BARE Message Encoding - Simple binary representation for structured application data. (Lobsters)
​Explaining text representation in computers (2020)​
​Text Encoding: The Thing You Were Trying to Avoid (2020)​
​Amazon Ion - Richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format offering interchangeable binary and text representations. (HN) (HN)
​Unicode In Five Minutes (2013)​
​Unicode support. What does that actually mean? (2020)​
​Fast UTF-8 validation (2020) (HN) (Code)
​UTF-8 Illustrator​
​Coded Character Sets, History and Development (1980)​
​Awesome Code Points - Curated list of characters in Unicode, that have interesting (and maybe not widely known) features or are awesome in some other way.
​Text rendering tests - Unicode’s test suite for text rendering engines.
​Executable PNGs (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
​Unicode Proposal to Encode Subscripts/Superscripts for Mathematical Programming​
​Emoji Under the Hood (HN)
​The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (Lobsters) (HN)
​Concise Encoding - Friendly data format for human and machine. Ad-hoc, secure, with 1:1 compatible twin binary and text formats and rich type support. (Code)
​Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers (2021)​
​Apache Avro - Data serialization system. (Web)
​Unicode sorting is hard & why browsers added special emoji matching to regexp (2021)​
​Any Encoding, Ever (2021) (HN)
​casync - Content Addressable Data Synchronizer.
​ANSI Escape Codes (HN)
​Entropy coding in Oodle Data: Huffman coding (2021)​
​Fun with Morse Code​
​Latinendian vs Arabendian (2020)​
​ICU - International Components for Unicode (Code)
​ruststep - STEP toolkit for Rust.
​Overview of Serialization Technologies (2018)​
​Substrait - Cross-Language Serialization for Relational Algebra. (Code) (substrait-rs)
​OpenH264 - Open Source H.264 Codec.
​Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö (2021) (HN)
​Planus - Alternative flatbuffer implementation.
​TinyCBOR - Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) Library.
​Cheat sheets for the Portable Document Format​
​Understanding UUIDs, ULIDs and String Representations (Lobsters) (HN)

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