What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (2011)
The world of text encodings is pretty insane, especially when you start getting into the realm of what seems like endless variations on multi-level encodings, like the bajillion different character set encodings for quwei&#x2F;kuten CJK encodings.<p>I&#x27;m only scratching the surface right now, and just wrote a CPG 932 → Unicode lookup utility. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;4PYmEjQZ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;4PYmEjQZ</a><p>(For internal testing, forgive any sloppiness, but feel free to use the kuten table if you happen to have a niche project with one-way mapping. The tables themselves are facts and not creative expression, so should not be copyrightable, but I&#x27;m dedicating the project to the public domain anyway.)