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2020-08-31 (updated 2020-09-01)

30-year-old file format behind MacOS hack
All sorts of things you can get wrong in Unicode, and why - Richard Harris
An Archive of a Different Type - Internet Archive Blogs
An Encoding Primer - Daniel Miessler
Archiving URLs - Gwern.net
BARE Message Encoding
Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? - Nature
Creating a QR Code step by step
Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone - The Guardian
Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII - The Register
Fieldata - Wikipedia
How To Build a Nuclear Warning For 10,000 Years' Time - Slashdot
How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2,000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll - Atlas Obscura
How to turn an ordinary gzip archive into a database - Artem Golubin
Inside the revolutionary Bell Labs Datacenter, 1960s - Rare Historical Photos
LastResort, the Mac's weirdest font - Boing Boing
MySQL: Some Character Set Basics - Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp
The Open-Asset-Importer-Lib
PDF: Still Unfit for Human Consumption, 20 Years Later - Nielsen Norman Group
QSN: A Familiar String Interchange Format
ReplayWeb.page
Request the saving of a software origin into the archive - Software Heritage archive
The Secret Life of Variation Selectors - Babelstone
Today’s Internet Still Relies on an ARPANET-Era Protocol: The Request for Comments - IEEE Spectrum
Unicode In Five Minutes - Richard Harris
Using Microsoft Word with git - Martin Fenner
What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings and Character Sets to Work With Text - Kunststube
ZIM (file format) - Wikipedia
ZIM file format - openZIM
benbalter/word-to-markdown: A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents
openzim/warc2zim: Command line tool to convert a file in the WARC format to a file in the ZIM format

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