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Dylan Beattie "There's no such thing as Plain Text"

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Systems programmingHistory and cultureOperating systemsHistory of computing

Dylan Beattie traces the history of character encodings from telegraphs to Unicode, explaining why text representation is never simple.

The story about plain text, from early British telegraph systems, to Danish orthography, Chinese event logs, and Ukrainian license plates, and more. Join KTalks on Kommunity to stay updated about the next events: kommunity.com/ktalks

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What people say. Recommended as an entertaining and essential talk on the complexities of character encodings and Unicode.

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