Four Column ASCII (2017)(garbagecollected.org)
320 points by tempodox | 76 comments
A 2017 blog post presenting the ASCII table in four columns of 32 to explain control characters, such as why Ctrl+[ produces escape.
#character-encoding on Hacker News
3 stories tagged character-encoding, newest first.
UTF-8 is a brilliant design(iamvishnu.com)
777 points by vishnuharidas | 305 comments
A blog post explaining how UTF-8 encoding represents millions of characters while remaining backward compatible with ASCII.
Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr;(ionathan.ch)
380 points by g0xA52A2A | 75 comments
A blog post continuing an investigation into the origin of the Unicode character U+237C RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW (⍼).