Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

The graphite integration traces back with the following error attempting to encode data to ascii. I think this can be readily fixed by encoding this data to utf-8, or ...

The SMPP SMS provider fails to properly encode non-ASCII characters (such as Chinese, Japanese, etc.). All non-ASCII characters are converted to ? (question marks) before being sent, regardless of the ...

may be invisible, but they play an important role in how your code works across platforms. This blog explains EOL characters, their ASCII codes, how Python handles them, and how to avoid common bugs ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

Electronic communication has changed how the world is connected. It started long before Twitter, or television, or even the telephone, and the secret lies in keying and digital coding. The earliest, ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...