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How not to mess up encodings

By Kristóf ⋅ August 30, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I’m not the kind of pedant guy who always fights for right language, right syntax, or right accenting. In the twentieth century, when there was no standard way to use accents, I wrote my emails, documents, etc even in Hungarian without accents, rather than using the half-cooked solutions that were around, like the multitude of character mappings (for us Hungarians, there were ISO-8859-2 aka Latin-2, ISO-8859-16 aka Latin-16, Windows-1250, CP852, Mac CentralEurRoman, and CP437 that almost had all of our characters). I guess there are nations where it was even worse.

Viennese Grind

By Kristóf ⋅ August 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Hey, I worked for this guy who is in the Economist’s “face value” column! Not for him personally, of course, but I was on the team that developed Meinl Bank’s web-trading system.

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