Saturday, August 15, 2009

UNICODE

Welcome to this blog.
First and foremost i wish to make it loud and clear that i do not claim any kind of ownersship or liabilty to the correctness or any other issues related to the information presented to you here .
Though i accept that PLAGIARISM is bad, I cannot help it since 'm a student still and my sources of information are books and the Web.So let me be excused for violation of copy rights(If any arise).

Did you ever get an email from your friends with the subject line "??>>.../##!``~~**__*(&-" ?
Use the View/Encoding menu and try a bunch of different encodings until the picture comes in clearer.
If you have a string, in memory, in a file, or in an e-mail message, you have to know what encoding it is in or you cannot interpret it or display it correctly or even figure out where it ends.
when you use the internet to transfer documents electronically as e-mail messages,e-mail attachments or Web pages, or if you start reading documents from any othercountry, particularly from a country with a different language(alphabet), the limitations of encoding systems like ASCII,EBCDIC become apparent. The data always runs the risk of being corroupted --some of the letters might not show up! Or you usually get a little question mark or a box . There are similar problems when moving documents between operating systems such as DOS, Windows, Mac OS and UNIX.

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