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Edit Deccan Herald 13 Mar 2016
SMS text messages have a character limit of 160 characters, so why does Twitter allow only 140 characters in a tweet? ... Messages that run longer than 160 characters are typically split into multiple messages or converted into picture messages. (Sending messages that contain emoji pictographs usually lowers the maximum to 70 characters because of the way they are encoded and the amount of space they use.)....

Content-Type Meta Tag

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016
The content-type meta tag allows web authors to specify the character encoding of their web page ... pages where the server does not set the character encoding....

HTML Quick and Dirty

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016
In HTML4 and HTML5 there are only two things you need in an HTML document for it to be valid.doctypetitle element. This means that this is a valid HTML4 document ... <title>HTML4 Minimal Markup Example</title>. This page should validate as HTML 4.01 ... I realize I haven't defined character encoding, which is resulting in a “tentative” valid listing. I don't have access to the About.com servers to set the character encoding....

Book Review: Head First HTML and CSS 2nd Edition Updated for HTML5

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016
Head First HTML and CSS 2nd Edition Updated for HTML5.&nbsp; Image courtesy PriceGrabber. Bottom Line. This book is a good book for beginners who don’t like to learn from books ... Cons ... Chapter 1. The Language of the Web ... Meeting the “HT” in HTML ... Web Page Construction ... Chapter 4 ... This chapter helps you learn how to troubleshoot problems with your HTML, adding meta data like character encoding, and using the doctype to define your HTML ... ....

Iterating Over Strings

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Perhaps the strings hold some encoded data, or you simply need to count certain characters. It's not a common task, but at some point in time you'll need to iterate over a string.Character Encoding ... Unicode is a complex topic, but all you really need to know is that not all characters from all languages can fit into the default (non-extended) 128 ASCII characters, so a larger encoding scheme was needed....

This little innovation is bringing a revolution in the Odia language

Edit DNA India 03 Feb 2016
In 2012, Odisha based non-profit Srujanika, with help from colleagues, created two text encoding converters that could convert two different legacy non-Unicode based script encoding systems to Unicode ... This is done by way of an encoding system that basically maps each character to a unique numeric code ... Read more on how the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character encoding technology here....

OpenMarket Launches Global SMS API, Simplifies Enterprises' SMS Messaging Programs New API Enables Businesses to Easily Build Intelligent SMS Messaging Programs via Short Codes, Text-enabled Toll-free and Local Numbers, and Alphanumeric Codes

Edit PR Newswire 03 Feb 2016
Supporting multiple character sets, managing message length, and tracking message delivery have also ... Automatic Originator Selection and Character Encoding are two key features of the new global SMS API ... With Simplified Character Encoding, OpenMarket will optimize and deliver the message in the preferred format based on global operators and languages....

Using Address Bar Shortcuts to Control the Opera Browser

Edit About.com 27 Jan 2016
This article is only intended for users running the Opera Web browser on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems ... Most of the interfaces used to access these settings are available through Opera's graphical menus or via keyboard shortcuts ... Also allows you to change Opera's character encoding to something other than UTF-8, as well as modify the browser's minimum font size on a sliding scale ranging from tiny to huge ... ....

On World AIDS Day, condom maker calls for safe-sex emoji

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 01 Dec 2015
LONDON — Time for an official safe-sex emoji?. Condom-maker Durex says so and is presenting a formal submission on World AIDS Day to get Unicode, the international organization that sets standards for character encoding on digital devices, to adopt one ... ....

System Error Codes: 12009 to 15841

Edit About.com 25 Sep 2015
For more information, see the Content Encoding topic ... The encoding group identifier specified is not recognized ... The encoding requested is not recognized ... A string literal was expected but no opening quote character was found ... A name was started with an invalid character ... A name contained an invalid character ... A semi colon character was expected ... The character encoding in the XML declaration did not match the encoding used in the document....

Facebook gains power to Like any word ever written

Edit The Register 16 Sep 2015
The Social NetworkTM signs up as voting member Unicode Consortium. Facebook as signed up as a full member of the Unicode Consortium, the body that universal character encoding standard for written characters and text.... ....

Microsoft Internet Explorer Shift JIS Character Encoding Information Disclosure ...

Edit Big News Network 31 May 2015
Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a cross-domain information-disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to access local files or content from a browser window in ... ....

The master list of Google Easter eggs worth checking out

Edit CNET 14 Mar 2015
Here are all the best Easter eggs you need to check out ... ASCII art is imagery made of monospaced letters named after the storied character encoding scheme ... Google Maps' pegman character, used to signify the perspective of the street view feature, changes on special occasions. And when he shows up at Legoland in Carlsbad, Calif., he turns into a Lego character. (The new version of Google Maps no longer shows pegman as a Lego character.) ... ....
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