{"id":1389,"date":"2012-11-17T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T13:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2012-11-17T08:06:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T13:06:44","slug":"encodings-and-unicode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Encodings and Unicode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David C. Zentgraf over at <a href=\"http:\/\/kunststube.net\">Kunststube.net<\/a> has a useful post about character encodings, Unicode, and UTF-<em>X<\/em>. The post is entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/kunststube.net\/encoding\/\">What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text<\/a>, which is a pretty good summary of its content. I&#8217;m confident that almost all Irreal readers will already know this material but if you&#8217;re confused about the difference between Unicode and UTF-8 or some other UTF encoding then you may find this post enlightening. Similarly, if you have non-technical friends who want a succinct explanation of why they&#8217;re getting a stream of gibberish characters in their browser this may be a good resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David C. Zentgraf over at Kunststube.net has a useful post about character encodings, Unicode, and UTF-X. The post is entitled What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text, which is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}