What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that ...

Trending today: new emojis from the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that's tasked with standardizing emojis across all operating systems.

You mean "Why was one of the programmers involved in working out the character encoding issues in one of the programs that processed that message dumb?". Unicode may never have been involved.