Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Copenhagen 2022
NDC Conferences · 5 HN recommendations
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Dylan Beattie's conference talk explores the history and mess behind plain text: encodings, Unicode, line endings and the many ways text goes wrong. It argues that the tidy idea of plain text hides a lot of complexity underneath everyday software.
Why HN recommends it: HN people recommend it as an entertaining, surprisingly deep talk that comes up whenever encodings, mojibake or Unicode are discussed.
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