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September 2005 - Posts

Monday, September 26, 2005 11:49 AM

Avoid treating binary data as a String.

A common code snippet that I see is something that uses binary data as a String, something like: String myHash = "abcd\xD800"; String encrypted = Encoding.Default.GetString(byte[] encryptedData); encryptor.bytes[] = Encoding.Default.GetBytes("my key");
Posted by shawnste | 6 Comments
Monday, September 12, 2005 5:12 PM

Code Page 21027 "Extended/Ext Alpha Lowercase"

I was playing with code pages and ran into an interesting case: Code Page 21027 - Ext Alpha Lowercase. This code page has some interesting behavior. It looks like a Japaneses EBCDIC code page, however its kind of "missing" mappings for some characters,
Posted by shawnste | 1 Comments
 
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