Questions tagged [unicode]
The Universal Character Set (Unicode, ISO 10646): standardisation history, early adopters and conversion between it and retro character sets.
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What's the correct Unicode code point for the Apple IIe's "delete" symbol?
I was writing an essay today about using the Apple IIe I grew up on, and I wanted to add some examples that included the "delete" symbol that was used for the cursor:
But try as I might, I ...
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How was the order of Unicode block-quadrant characters chosen?
Unicode codepoints 0x2596–0x259f can help you draw primitive graphics by offering all the combinations of on or off for the four quadrants of a glyph. They're available in this order:
▖ ▗ ▘ ▙ ▚ ▛ ...
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Why did Windows 3.0 fail in Japan?
According to The launch of Windows 3.1 in Japan was such a big event that they even called it “Windows Day” (Bullfrag):
When Microsoft released Windows 3.0 in the United States in 1990, they were ...
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How widely used were C1 control codes?
As ASCII is a 7-bit code set, and ISO 646 cannot satisfy needs of many languages, variable-length ISO 2022/EUC was developed, which introduced C1 control codes.
However, C1 have hardly left any ...
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Are the control characters any useful nowadays? [closed]
I asked this question on Super User, but the community at the site told me to redirect to this site. If this is again an off-topic question, do not blame me please!
I am sorry if the control ...
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Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco? [closed]
Anyone who has studied Unicode and is honest will admit that UTF-16 was kind of a mistake. It was born from the early assumption that 16 bits would be enough for all of Unicode. Then a hack was ...
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What mid-1970s to mid-1980s home computers had their graphics characters added to Unicode 13?
The Unicode 13.0.0 release notes mention among the symbol additions:
214 graphic characters that provide compatibility with various home computers from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s and with early ...
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Determine Character Encoding used on HP 9000 Model 310 running BASIC 5.1
With the help of this community, I was able to copy and emulate a HP9133 HD using Hpdir and Hpdrive.
Now, I want to edit, or at the bare minimum, read the programs on the HD. I have extracted the ...
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How do I interpret the old Mac character set?
Older Macintoshes and the Apple IIgs used a custom character set for documents and filenames. Each character was held in an 8-bit byte, using 0x00-0x7F for ASCII, and 0x80-0xFF for various symbols ...
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