Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text ...

ASCII plays a much more important role on our systems than generating techno-art. Let's explore the commands that allow you to see how it works. Back when I started working with computers, ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...