If you've ever gotten a number of weird looking characters in your database or on your website like, "�" and didn't know why, then this episode is for you. Those bizarre chara
What are character encodings?
Comparison of number systems (base-10, binary, hexadecimal)
Historical development of character maps and encodings (telegram, ASCII, ISO-8859-1...)
Unicode and its implementations (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32)