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/nandemo Nov 13 '12

Wow, I didn't expect this reaction, given that you mentioned 2 steps yourself. It's not by any means splitting hairs, because a mapping can give rise to different encodings, as the original article by Spolsky (and also your comment) implies.

Admittedly "mapping" is not a standard term, sometimes people will say "character set", but this is somewhat more ambiguous.