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Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

Computerphile
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Audible free book: http://www.audible.com/computerphile Representing symbols, characters and letters that are used worldwide is no mean feat, but unicode managed it - how? Tom Scott explains how the web has settled on a standard. More from Tom Scott:    / enyay   and   / tomscott   EXTRA BITS:    • EXTRA BITS - UTF-8 'nearly' works - Comput...   Data Security:    • Security of Data on Disk - Computerphile     / computerphile     / computer_phile   This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels ...more
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Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
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Audible free book: http://www.audible.com/computerphile Representing symbols, characters and letters that are used worldwide is no mean feat, but unicode managed it - how? Tom Scott explains how the web has settled on a standard. More from Tom Scott:    / enyay   and   / tomscott   EXTRA BITS:    • EXTRA BITS - UTF-8 'nearly' works - Comput...   Data Security:    • Security of Data on Disk - Computerphile     / computerphile     / computer_phile   This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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