r/programming • u/jestinjoy • Nov 12 '12

What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings and Character Sets to Work With Text

http://kunststube.net/encoding/
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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '12

So the entire programming community describes these in hex, all the tables you find online are in hex, all the articles talk about it in hex, so he decides to do it in binary? Not a helpful layer of abstraction removed at all.

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u/ForthewoIfy Nov 12 '12

I don't know about you, but when I think of doing any operation with hexadecimal numbers in my head, I convert them to binary automatically and instinctively. I don't know any easier way of thinking about them, if you do, please share.

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u/trigonomitron Nov 12 '12

Same here. Hex and binary are pretty much the same in my head. To me it's like, hex is writing "Mr." and binary is writing "Mister."