blanketsin.com) wrote, blanketsin.com The IBM-PC had something that came to be known as the OEM character set which provided some accented characters for European languages and a bunch of line drawing characters… horizontal bars, vertical bars, horizontal bars with little dingle-dangles dangling off the right side, etc.
If you have a string, in memory, in a file, or in an email message, you have to know what encoding it is in or you cannot interpret it or display it to users correctly.
kicking myself over the head as I recall seeing this book pass thru my hands as a donation, but I didn’t think to snatch it for my own. Now…
Bierenbaum v. Graham Remember Dirty Dancing? Robbie Gould’s character is the embodiment of Robert Bierenbaum. In the movie, do you remember…
Fun fact: Lauren Bacall used her maiden name of WEINSTEIN when she created her stage name. http://www.factinate.com/people/facts-lauren-bacall