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window.btoa - MDN
In most browsers, calling window.btoa on a Unicode string will cause a Character Out Of Range exception.

To avoid this, consider this pattern, noted by Johan Sundström
development  javascript  encode  encoding  utf-8  unicode 
november 2011 by danesparza
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - Joel on Software
Ever wonder about that mysterious Content-Type tag? You know, the one you're supposed to put in HTML and you never quite know what it should be?
unicode  encode  encoding  programming  development  howto  utf-8 
november 2011 by danesparza
Why the #AskObama Tweet was Garbled on Screen: Know your UTF-8, Unicode, ASCII and ANSI Decoding Mr. President - Scott Hanselman
And a million programmers, regardless of political party, groaned in unison. First, because someone screwed up their UTF-8 decoding, by not doing it, and second, because our President doesn't recognize a text encoding bug when he sees one! Well, maybe that second one was just me, but still. Tragic. The President then teased the Senator for his typing while newspapers and news organizations struggled to get their minds around this "garbled tweet."
twitter  development  utf-8  encode  encoding 
july 2011 by danesparza

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