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What are the commonly confused encodings that may result in identical test data?
I'm fixing code that is using ASCIIEncoding in some places and UTF-8 encoding in other functions.
Since we aren't using the UTF-8 features, all of our unit tests passed, but I want to create a ...
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Why was ASCII needed?
With an encoding such as EBCDIC being in existence already (and being 8 bit to boot), what was the need to invent yet another encoding and a 7 bit one at that?
Why was ASCII invented and what ...
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What is the advantage of choosing ASCII encoding over UTF-8?
All characters in ASCII can be encoded using UTF-8 without an increase in storage (both requires a byte of storage).
UTF-8 has the added benefit of character support beyond "ASCII-characters". If ...
