OK. So, I inherited an ASP 3.0 web app that I just recently realized has a character encoding problem. Long story short, the data that users are submitting has started to become riddled with ...

CSV files use a comma and Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) to share text between apps. UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF=32 work better with specific apps.

While it may not look like much, the image above is a piece of the original email where [Ken Thompson] described what would become the implementation of UTF-8. At the dawn of the computer age in ...