character encoding n. Any of various encoding schemes, such as ASCII or Unicode, in which letters and other characters are each assigned a unique number for storage and transmission on computers. Also calledcharacter map,character set,charset. ...
There are many character components which have no unicode support (i.e., you can’t display them on a computer without creating a custom font), we use formulas for those, like [漢-氵] which means “What is remaining of 漢 when you get rid of 氵.” So far, we have 197 of th...
Because computers, we have Unicode: a universal encoding standard that’s designed to have enough space to store every code point of every human written language and then some. Unicode is a superset character encoding standard that incorporates and is backwards compatible with the biggest early enco...
China represents the biggest gaming market in the world. Yes, it’s bigger than in the US both by revenue and the number of players. Plus, it keeps exponentially growing year to year. Here are some of the facts about the Chinese game market: There are different estimates of the value of...
Emacs - One of the godfathers of text editors, free long-standing software project, tons of extensions and funcionalities, the biggest drawback (my taste): it needs E-Lisp for being programmed. eon - A light, modern editor for your terminal that doesn't want to be vim. Feather - The ...
Do we write the biggest (most significant) digit first, and then the next biggest, etc etc, until we reach the littlest (least significant) digit? Or do we start with the littlest digit first? In English we always write the biggest one first, hence English could be described as "big ...
Yeah, 💕 is no longer in the top ten but its replacement 🥰 was just outside at number 16. If you seek dramatic changes, the Top 200 contains bigger jumps — the biggest gainers were 🎂 (113 to 25) 🎈 (139 to 48) and 🥺 (97 to 14). Pleading Face emoji — like many ...
There are solutions to the processing of encoded character data, but they are not clean or simple. The biggest part of the problem is that the standard and documentation don't clearly warn the programmer that the problem exists and has to be solved. ...
Oauth 2.0 is a better choice as it is a recognised open standard and is used by some of the biggest online companies. Oauth defines different 'grants' for different use cases and two distinct components, the Authorization Server and the Resource Server. There are a number of existing open ...
Emojis are fast becoming the world’s biggest form of communication. Every day, people send out 60 million emojis on Facebook. On Instagram, almost 50 percent of comments contain emojis! Every year, the emoji dictionary increases. This year,117 new designsare scheduled for release. As the emo...