I'm not a Klingon : Code Pages, Unicode & Encodings

Code Pages, Unicode & Encodings

I hope to put some links to interesting posts about Code Pages/Unicode/Encodings here.

Use Unicode! That solves lots of Encoding/Code Page problems :)
Code Pages and Security Issues chats about some of the problems encountered when converting between encodings.
Avoid treating binary data as a String addresses the common problem of pretending random bytes are valid Unicode (or other character strings)
Best Fit in WideCharToMultiByte and System.Text.Encoding Should be Avoided
Change to Unicode Encoding for Unicode 5.0 conformance discusses the U+FFFD replacement character behavior for unknown Unicode code points in UTF-8 and other Unicode encodings.
.Net Framework Samples "Fallback Encoding Application Sample" demonstrates Encoding/Decoding and Fallbacks, demonstrating the various APIs provided. Some aspects could have been done more efficiently, but we wanted to demonstrate different techniques.
CP 951 & HKSCS talks about special cases for HKSCS support.
A History of Code Pages or What Made Code Page XXXX (or many other computer things) The Way It Is?
Are we going to update or maintain the best fit &/or code page mappings? answers a common question.

Hope this is helpful. I'll post more links here when I add them

Published Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:02 PM by shawnste

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People wonder if we're going to update our best fit code page mappings, or even our code page mappings.

Monday, September 24, 2007 2:05 PM by I'm not a Klingon

In my post Change to Unicode Encoding for Unicode 5.0 conformance I mentioned that the behavior of illegal

Monday, March 10, 2008 2:28 PM by I'm not a Klingon

In my post Change to Unicode Encoding for Unicode 5.0 conformance I mentioned that the behavior of illegal

Monday, March 10, 2008 2:56 PM by Noticias externas

First of all, remember to Use Unicode when practical :) Sometimes older applications don't allow Unicode,

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:21 PM by I'm not a Klingon