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The MS Office character replacement problem

The MS Office suite has been responsible for major productivity boosts over the years. However, it can also play merry hell with integration solutions. Let us look at the reasons why.

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Encoding 101 - Part 4

In this final part of the series, we discuss how to prevent encoding problems.

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Encoding 101 - Part 3

This time we dive into some of the kinds of errors that can arise from interpreting data using a different encoding than the one which was used to make them.

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Encoding 101 - Part 2

This time we introduce two of the most common encodings in use today and look at some of their differences.

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Encoding 101 - Part 1

So you think text is simply text. Well, think again. In this series of blog posts we shall descend to the byte level, study how text is actually represented by computers, and discuss how this impacts your integration solutions.