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04-Character Encoding
04-Character Encoding
Julliard Ph.D
INSCAE
Feb 2024
Why? What?
Text and characters
How are they being interpreted (encoded) and displayed on the screen
(or paper)?
Indian
Hangul
Hanzi
Cyrillic
Modern Keyboard
Qwerty layout
Typewriter
Modern Text Encoding Mechanism
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
UTF-8
Since 1991
UTF-16
UTF-24
UTF-32
Emoji
🙏 ???
New language system
Geopolitics of emoji
🏳️🌈 🇹🇼
New language system
Fun with emoji
FONTS MATTERS
Readibility
Style