The Unicode standard, meanwhile, is itself constantly being revised and extended. At the same time, Windows users are getting built-in language and Unicode support that in some respects is light-years ...

And if you want to get your hands dirty with Unicode glyphs, check out [Roman Czyborra]’s tools here, which are simple command line tools that let you easily experiment using ASCII art.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...