Links for June 2016

6/30/2016 (updated 7/12/16)

• CSV: An Encoding Nightmare — Donat Studios
• Comma Separated JSON
• DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector | Big Mess o' Wires
• DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector | Hacker News
• Data Format Description Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• File-format analysis tools for archivists [LWN.net]
• How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters | Hacker News
• How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? What do they have in common and how are they different? - Stack Overflow
• Linux Color Emoji Font Adds 72 New Unicode 9.0 Emoji - OMG! Ubuntu!
• Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it? | Ars Technica UK
• Recreating Clarke’s “The Sentinel” in real life | Mad File Format Science
• Stunningly beautiful photos of old timey computers / Boing Boing
• Thanks To Apple’s Influence, You’re Not Getting A Rifle Emoji
• The Unicode Blog: Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 9.0
• UTF-8 Everywhere
• Unicode Power Symbol | We did it! How a comment on HackerNews lead to 4 ½ new Unicode characters
• Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer
• jagracey/Awesome-Unicode: A curated list of Awesome Unicode
• vfmd: Markdown with a spec
• xkcd: Digital Data

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