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**Shawn Brink** @Shawn_Brink@techhub.social · 6d

Shawn Brink @Shawn_Brink@techhub.social

How to Enable or Disable #Unicode UTF-8 for Worldwide Language Support in #Windows11 and #Windows10 #UTF8 #UnicodeUTF8
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-unicode-utf-8-for-worldwide-language-support-in-windows-11.38649/

**rawe** @stereo4x4@techhub.social · Jul 28

Jul 28

rawe @stereo4x4@techhub.social

It is 2025 and it has been 0 days since I wasted way too much time due to f"Â¿QuÃ©ucked up character encoding.

#utf8

**Ge0rG** @ge0rg@chaos.social · Jul 26

Jul 26

Ge0rG @ge0rg@chaos.social

30 years in, UTF-8 remains a mystery.

Screenshot of a verification SMS in German, where the UTF-8 Umlaut is incorrectly decoded as Latin-1

#ScreenshotSaturday #utf8 #Neuland

**Dave Tabb** @dtabb73@mastodon.africa · Jul 25

Jul 25

Dave Tabb @dtabb73@mastodon.africa

Every time I read about how we encode characters as bit-patterns on computers, I feel impressed all over again.
#UTF8 #Ethiopia
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1200.pdf

**dusoft** @dusoft@fosstodon.org · May 28 *

May 28 *

dusoft @dusoft@fosstodon.org

ETA app of the UK government does not support diacritics in 2025! Get that, Unicode!
#govuk #government #uk #greatbritain #mess #utf8 #unicode #design #ui #ux #app

**jzdm** @jzdm@mieth.social · May 8

May 8

jzdm @jzdm@mieth.social

TIL: Deutsches #Excel (unter MacOS) erwartet beim Öffnen einer CSV-Datei UTF8-Encoding mit BOM. `iconv(1)` setzt kein BOM.
Warum Excel ohne BOM aber nicht ISO-8859-1 annimmt, ist mir noch schleierhaft.
#Encoding #UTF8 #BOM #iconv #TIL

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**we compiled different** @unspeaker@mastodon.social · Mar 15 *

Mar 15 *

we compiled different @unspeaker@mastodon.social

here's what #taggart looks like for now.

showing some #torrent-ed music with tags in invalid encoding (pre-#utf8 #win1251), and some albums ripped from #youtube with #ytdlp (where all the tracks are concatenated):

screenshot of tui music tag editor program, featuring tracks by "Íîâà Ãåíåðàöèÿ". the terminal background is a futurist painting that i thought depicted a tower crane but turns out it's a ww1 aerial attack. the resolution of that painting is not crisp enough but the colors are nice

#tengri #tui #id3

**vintage screwlisp account** @screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org · Feb 17 *

Feb 17 *

vintage screwlisp account @screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org

Hey everyone. I must admit, I don't believe I have ever seen someone enter #utf8 #unicode characters on a #computer in a natural way. Which seems weird, because a bunch of languages use them.

I wrote a #commonLisp #asdf package that just looks up a list of symbols in a file that has every non-surrogate unicode codepoint in it, and an #emacs #elisp function that just calls the #lisp one.

https://codeberg.org/tfw/unicode-chars

Multilingual people, what can you tell me about doing this at all?

$A screenshot of a readme showing (unsy '(sta si)) returning ("⍣" |#x2363| 9059 #\APL_FUNCTIONAL_SYMBOL_STAR_DIAERESIS "->⍣<-") and (multiple-value-list (unget:unsy '(sta si) '(apl))) returning ("✶" |#x2736| 10038 #\SIX_POINTED_BLACK_STAR "->✶<-")$