I was approached yesterday by a friend who asked me if I knew a good way to encode (compress) a string of numbers so that it would be as short as possible, while still perfectly readable by a human.

When you start working with CSVs in Python, almost everyone hits the same wall. It looks garbled when opened in Excel. Dates remain as strings and cannot be calculated. You get an error when trying to ...

Unicode/UTF-8 support appeared in Tcl/Tk 8.1, which came out in April 1999, i.e., nearly 15 years ago. It is worth noting that Unicode in Tcl worked quite well pretty much from the point when it was ...

Anyone have some C# sample code or class to decode/encode base64 data? I'm new to C#, and I thought this sort of thing would be built-in to .NET. Just looking for a black box that will take a b64 ...

I wouldn't be so quick to claim that there are never character set or encoding related bugs in Perl or Tcl applications as a direct result of DWIM not always doing the _right_ thing. Perhaps not ...