What a charset!

What a character set!

What a charset!

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ISO-8859-1

ISO-8859-2

ISO-8859-6

ISO-8859-8

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He always used to refer this guitar, never “Fender guitar” or “Gibson guitar,” it was always the “goddamn guitar.” —Bruce Springsteen talking about his father

When I was growing up there were two things that were unpopular in my house: one was me, and the other one was my guitar. —Bruce Springsteen

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ISO-8859-8 FD E5 EC F9 visuell

ISO-8859-8-I F9 EC E5 FD ‫ם ו ל ש‬ logisch

character set ≠ character encoding

a ä “ Unicode U+0061 U+00E4 U+201C HTML escapes ä “ ä “

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Dvořák

a ä “ Unicode U+0061 U+00E4 U+201C HTML escapes ä “ ä “

Antonín Dvořák – der weltweit meistgespielte tschechische Komponist Antonín Dvořák – der weltweit meistgespielte tschechische Komponist

Unicode a ä “ BOM U+0061 U+00E4 U+201C U+FEFF HTML escapes ä “ ä “ UTF-16 BE 00 61 00 E4 20 1C FE FF UTF-16 LE 61 00 E4 00 1C 20 FF FE

Unicode a ä “ 😝 BOM U+0061 U+00E4 U+201C U+FEFF HTML escapes ä “ ä “ U+1F61D 😝 UTF-16 BE 00 61 00 E4 20 1C FE FF D8 3D DE 1D UTF-16 LE 61 00 E4 00 1C 20 FF FE 1D DE 3D D8 ≫ ← ‘😝’.length 2

Unicode a ä “ BOM U+0061 U+00E4 U+201C U+FEFF HTML escapes ä “ ä “ 😝 U+1F61D 😝 UTF-16 BE 00 61 00 E4 20 1C FE FF D8 3D DE 1D UTF-16 LE 61 00 E4 00 1C 20 FF FE 1D DE 3D D8 UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 61 00 00 00 E4 00 00 20 1C 00 00 FE FF 00 01 F6 1D

Unicode a ä “ BOM U+0061 U+00E4 U+201C U+FEFF HTML escapes ä “ ä “ 😝 U+1F61D 😝 UTF-16 BE 00 61 00 E4 20 1C FE FF D8 3D DE 1D UTF-16 LE 61 00 E4 00 1C 20 FF FE 1D DE 3D D8 UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 61 00 00 00 E4 00 00 20 1C 00 00 FE FF 00 01 F6 1D 61 C3 A4 E2 80 9C EF BB BF F0 98 9F 9C UTF-8

character set Unicode a ä “ BOM U+0061 U+00E4 U+201C U+FEFF 😝 U+1F61D UTF-16 BE 00 61 00 E4 20 1C FE FF D8 3D DE 1D UTF-16 LE 61 00 E4 00 1C 20 FF FE 1D DE 3D D8 UTF-32 BE 00 00 00 61 00 00 00 E4 00 00 20 1C 00 00 FE FF 00 01 F6 1D 61 C3 A4 E2 80 9C EF BB BF F0 98 9F 9C UTF-8 character encoding

character encoding HTML

C3 A4 character encoding U+00E4 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS font ä

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charset ≠ character set

charset = character encoding

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What a character set!