Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM - Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #2

Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You #2 - Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM

Thanks to Carlos Schults for his hard work on the English and Portuguese Subtitles!

[ammarsalmi]

I hit subscribe automatically after watching this single video. It's the first time I found this channel.

[markfarnsworth]

Great video! I’ve been designing and building software full-time (mostly large UNIX backend systems) for the last 30 years, and I still learn so much from all of your videos. I love your from-the-ground-up approach. It reminds me of things I’d forgotten, and fills in the details of things I never consciously thought about, but have just used without fully understanding them for years and years. Many thanks for helping humanity!

[tomkirbygreen]

Never gets old this stuff, I’m trying to debug Japanese PDF generation using an ancient open source library. Hours of fun.

[matteroftouch]

I am learning so much, and I love the conversational tone. I did not finish my formal education, but I am pursuing an IT career and this really helps make the task less daunting. Thank you.

[JordonPatrickMears]

I've had your tools page bookmarked for a decade, subbed immediately after seeing this video. Top quality 👌

[raj-weyr]

Thank you very much. You showed us so clearly how this is used in practice. This is a tech topic that has never been demo'ed adequately. Humbly requesting you to share a video on how Unicode text and its encoding is handled in PDF files and displayed/printed.

[orbitaldefence]

Well i for one have never been taught this before, thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[DeliberateGeek]

Great content! It's amazing the things you realize that you either forget or never knew. I was aware of the various encodings. The BOM, however, I either never knew or completely forgot about, Thanks Scott!

[theFoodieCyclist]

Really cool series! The basics are often overlooked although they are essential building blocks.

[dennisrasmussen]

Thanks Scott! I never learned this stuff. It is very useful and you present the material in a very simple way, so it is easily understood. I'll watch every single video you make in this series!

[ballafolife]

Thank you for taking the time to share, and enlighten us as well, with your acquired knowledge.

[dalevross]

Brought back memories. My high school crush's name had an accented e, so Alt-0223 was committed to memory really early :).

[sarcasmasaservice]

Great stuff, Scott, thanks so much! I'd welcome your insights on Int32/Int64 and single- and double-precision IEEE-754. My students would appreciate it as well!

[AnonEMuss-gwfm]

FYI... The Unicode standard says "Use of a BOM is neither required nor recommended for UTF-8". Using a BOM with UTF-8 is almost exclusively a "Windows thing" -- you'll rarely see it on other platforms. Most of the non-Windows world treats text files as UTF-8 by default.

[wolfstelheilm]

Sir, you're right, not everyone shares the same class, really appreciate what you're doing. I hope you're channel grows.

[heavycavalry]

You are the teacher I never got. Thanks for uploading!

[petermcclymont]

I really enjoyed this video. I was aware of encodings, but this has always been an area of confusion to me so I appreciate it. Keep it up Scott!

[RealGaius]

I love your video, you're course is more understanding than anyone. Thanks

[sanjin]

Entire series "Computer Stuff They Didn't Teach You" is excellent. Please continue and I wish you good luck ! Idea for future video: "Asynchronous/Synchronous Requests"

[MahendraKumar-fubp]

Excellent Explaination. Feels like learned something unique today. Thanks