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"unicode on punch cards" in the Abyss, should clearly point to UTF-EBCDIC [0] and not just EBCDIC [1]. UTF-EBCDIC is probably one of the most exotic unicode for
by erk__ 6y ago
"unicode on punch cards" in the Abyss, should clearly point to UTF-EBCDIC [0] and not just EBCDIC [1]. UTF-EBCDIC is probably one of the most exotic unicode formats, and I don't believe it is used much anymore, if it ever were.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC
- jmillikin 6y agoUnicode encoding is a rich source of strange behavior. A couple that come to mind: Decoders that try to restart on unexpected byte sequences: https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/case-report-surugaya-mojibake https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/case-report-surugaya-... GHC 7.2 using Unicode to represent file paths on Linux (where paths are arbitrary bytes), an approach which was further explored in GHC 7.4 by using reserved codepoints. \u vs \U escapes in languages that added Unicode support before the codepoint space was expanded beyond 16 bits.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoCorrectly referred to as WTF-EBCDIC.