#UTF-8

[magnetictapedatastorage]

i was able to visually "fix" a mis-encoded tf2chan fic using word's "find and replace" and a UTF-8 debugging chart, creating an offline copy that visually matches what it "should" look like, but it's not a fool-proof process (for example, you have to be very sure to go in order from LONGEST present mojibakes to shortest, or you will not get the right result) and it kind of takes a while. unfortunately there is literally no better way to be doing this from the user end from what i understand, but at least the result is clean.

I might try doing this with other fics for my own enjoyment, but I want to tell others how to do it too, especially for archival.

before:

and after:

the cheat sheet is here. for each instance of mojibake put the "actual" in the "find" box, and "expected" in the "replace with" box, and hit "replace all". Again, make sure to go from LONGEST to SHORTEST. first 3 character mojibakes, then 2 character, then if present 1 character. do not go out of order. If something seems off, like if it found and replaced way more end quotes than start quotes, you went out of order.

[osyo]

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Shift_JIS「もしかして・・・・」　UTF-8「私たち・・・・」

二人「蜈･繧梧崛繧上▲縺ｦ繧具ｽ橸ｼ?ｼ」

[chin-chillax]

Holy Arceus, this isn’t an image!?

PHARAOH’S CURSE 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 ���� 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊

[unicodenthusiast]

The size of Unicode

[bravehartk2]

Convert latint1 database to UTF-8

$> mysqldump --opt -Q -u USER -p PASSWORT -h HOST DB > dump.sql $> sed -i 's/CHARSET=latin1/CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci/g' dump.sql $> sed -i 's/SET NAMES latin1/SET NAMES utf8/g' dump.sql $> mysql -u USER -pPASSWORT --default-character-set=utf8 database < dump.sql

[seaweedsawyou]

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Окей. Никто не собирался рассказать, что финал "Библиотекаря" Елизарова от 2007 полностью повторяет финал Лабиринтов Ехо ("Тихий город") от 2000 года???? С единственной разницей, что Алексея приносят в жертву Союзу Небесному и неприкосновенности его наследницы россии-не-родины, прошлой и будущей, а сэра Макса, иммигранта, - в жертву волшебной второй родине, любовно принявшей неудачника. Оба пишут книгу, только Алексей просто так, а сэр Макс - чтобы влюбить побольше людей в чудесный мир Стержня, тем самым разделив бремя его защиты между вершителями грустного мира Паука??? Хз хз. От концовки Лабиринтов меня вся ещё плющит десять лет спустя. В принципе, раз Елизаров смог ее употребить в общественно-политическом контексте - ему плюс.

Прочитав конец, я думала, что это отсылка у Фрая такая. Но было наоборот!!!!! Пиздец просто!!!!!!

[tide-locked]

ok, i'm being so brave and making the rec post that i told anon i would do like three days ago.

the obligatory caveats. this is not comprehensive—i haven't read all the fic in this fandom, and i've barely looked at anything not in english. my reading habits are pretty broad—i'll read almost any pairing, and am generally willing to suspend my disbelief to do so. i am not usually an au person, though this fandom is doing its absolute damndest to prove me wrong on that point.

also i have…more…fics that i felt i should rec somewhere, so probably this is rec post one, but ten felt like enough and also saying things in public where people can hear me is, it turns out, absolutely excruciating. please no one be mean to me about this post, especially if you wrote one of these fics, because if you are i will simply fill my pockets with rocks and take to the sea, ok? ok.

excited to find out what i manage to do that ruins the formatting, links the wrong fics and/or people, or otherwise breaks things in this post. please tell me if i've fucked up, or if your fic is on this list and you would rather i keep your name out of my mouth, or whatever.

first, a very special mention to the mlc reference guide by @yletylyf. this is such an incredibly comprehensive and generous resource. you want a timeline for this show that does an incredibly poor job of maintaining its own timeline? it's here. you want episode summaries? they're here. you want all the people and places? they're here. if you're writing fic, you want this guide, because it's so much easier and faster than scanning episodes or subs files to figure out the name of one specific guy or whatever. it also means that at least occasionally you work on the thing rather than accidentally rewatching the same scene five times, or hypothetically watching two to four episodes without even really thinking about what you're doing. the reference guide is the unsung mvp of fandom.

beyond porch and portal, difanghua, teen, by willowdream. this is the vampire au that i didn't know i wanted? the author posted it and their note was like 'i'm trying to be the change i want to see in the world,' and i was like ok sure, i'm not really convinced that the change i need is vampire aus, but i'll give it a go, and then i did and was like, oh shit, i'm eating fucking glass about this vampire au, i'm chewing on my own fucking fingers, i'm so fucking normal about this, i need another hundred thousand words of this and also seventeen more vampire aus in my inbox by monday morning. i literally finished reading it and scrolled right back to the top to read it again. i have no idea why this fic hits so hard, but it took me out at the knees. the voices are perfect. something about it is just impossibly compelling.

不安的遠離，再无歸期 | restless distance, without return, fang duobing/qiao wanmian, mature and teen, by @difeisheng. this is technically two fics but they're short and you should read both of them because they're such a brutal, perfect encapsulation of grief, and a really beautiful acknowledgement of the ways that fang duobing and qiao wanmian can be read as reflections of each other, separated by a decade, and it just fucking guts me. i dunno. it's about the grief! it's about the yearning! it's about someone who understands parts of you that you wish didn't exist! i think i've reread this like once a week for the last six weeks and i feel like it gets overlooked because it's not A Ship but like. it could be. it should be.

dance the silence down, fanghua and feihua, explicit, by @momosandlemonsoda. this fic. ugh. ok. i'm breaking my own rules. i had two when i started writing this post: no works in progress, and no reccing things that i haven't left a comment on, like a goddamn grownup. this one fic is breaking both of those rules and i feel bad about it and will hopefully spend like, all day tomorrow just commenting on every chapter or something, but i have to do this. this fic is so good. this fic ruins me. this fic is 63k, still a work in progress, and also if i were losing the whole internet tomorrow and i got to keep one fic in all the world and it was the only fic i could have for the rest of time, it might have to be this one, even as a work in progress. i ignored this fic for so long—by which i mean probably two of the four months since i first watched mysterious lotus casebook—because i was like, i don't like aus, and i especially don't like rock star aus. (or sex work aus, and you're never gonna fucking believe what else this author is writing and what else i absolutely cannot get enough of—this is a sneaky bonus rec for all i wanna do is wrong, another fic that i feel so so so normal about!) but then i was like okkkkkkk but. maybe i'll try it. people seem to be nuts for it. and then i read it and i was like OH HOLY SHIT PEOPLE ARE FULLY CORRECT TO BE ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED ABOUT THIS and normally, honestly, i wouldn't bother posting a rec like this because it's like 'oh haha have you read the five most popular fics in this fandom?' and it feels so redundant, but i know for a fact that a friend of mine who finished watching the show yesterday is reading this post, and even if everyone else has read it, she has not! anyhow as a former music person and a former diner cook, this fic like. i don't know. i feel like it broke me but also fixed me? i literally criticise writing professionally and every time i try to talk about this fic i find myself speechless because it's so perfect to me. i am deeply unwell about this fic. every time a new chapter comes out i sit down and read the whole thing again, yes, all sixty-thousand-plus words of it. some nights you go to bed and you're like 'what's the fucking point?' and then you're like 'no wait, there will eventually be more of dance the silence down,' and somehow that makes things suck a tiny bit less. my wife has made me take out like six sentences from this rec because they're too intense and too weird about it but i need you to understand: you have to read this fic.

in this dream, there is a lover to share this life with, fanghua, g, by @lianhuajing. alternative ending for the end of episode 27, in which li lianhua—precious man who has yet to discover a hill he's not willing to die on—apologises to fang duobing the only way he knows how, and it's wildly upsetting for everyone (but it's ok and it doesn't end miserably, no one panic). this is a delightfully angsty treat, and i love how conflicted fang duobing is in it—i feel like it's not something that i've seen explored a lot, but this poor boy really fuckin goes through it—his best friend and his childhood idol are the same person but are lying to him about it, and his dad's not actually his father and has been lying to him about it, and his best friend/childhood idol may have killed his father, and—yeah, is lying to him about it. like? someone give this poor man a hug and a cup of tea and a snack and a blankie. i love that we get to see some of his internal conflict in this.

quintessence of dust, feihua, teen, by justthereforit. this plays with one of my very most favourite tropes in the world, which is the one where the heart is a physical object and a physical form of trust and control and surrender and—like. this is so good. it's set in episode 13, which is, for me, one of the absolute peak angst points, and it absolutely nails it. di feisheng who's upset and vulnerable and frustrated and angry, li lianhua who knows he's going to die and can't bear the thought that he's going to take anyone else down with him, and they're both just so fucked up. chef kiss. i love it when everyone is emotionally wrecked and continually like 'ok no, i can take one more knife in my soul to protect someone else', and this absolutely delivers on that.

under moonlight, we change our futures yet again, feihua, explicit, by @thesilversun. the wedding room! obviously we have to have a wedding room fic, right? i'm not going to lie: i'm willing to suspend a lot of disbelief for wedding room fics, but in this one, it's actually a wonderfully, horrifyingly plausible setup. it walks a really fine line of keeping people in character, and acknowledging the inherent horror and seriousness of the situation, and also providing some desperately hot sex, and also managing to get the emotional beats of it, too. it has a sequel, which imo really has to be read as the conclusion to this fic, and it's just as good. it's possible that some of what i'm saying here is 'i love vulnerable-inside crusty-outside di feisheng' but like. i do. i love it so much.

what's sealed away, feihua, teen, by @bbcphile. AMNESIA FIC yessssss, a-fei my beloved, fics that handle brain damage/memory issues/amnesia well my beloveddddd. i love the a-fei arc, but i also have had a number of brain injuries and some other stuff that means that my own memory is…not so great, so i sometimes really struggle with how often amnesia in fiction is played off either as nothing to worry about or as a funny thing where everyone's in on the joke except the person who has amnesia. this fic is a great and sometimes very visceral exploration of a horrifying experience, and a really fantastic study of a-fei/di feisheng as a character, as well as the relationship that he has with li lianhua. a-fei trying to balance the trust he has in the sense memory of his body with his understanding of his relationship with li lianhua with li lianhua's reaction to—everything, really—is really well done and wonderful/terrible to read.

我只愿面朝大海 | i wish only to face the sea, g, by foreverstudent. ok so you wanna fuck yourself up some more? go read this. this is canon divergence from episode 39, and fang duobing has learned too well the lessons he's been taught, and sees the shape of things before li lianhua ever touches the wangchuan flower—so he sets about making sure that he won't be able to throw it away. this is agonising and gorgeous and maintains the canon relationships while developing the narrative differently. i wept literal tears. i was like 'ok that's it the worst part is over!' and then i remembered that there was another part coming and then i started crying. anyhow, it is—as ever, with me—about the devotion.

我住長江頭, 君住長江尾 -- i live upstream, you live downstream, fanghua, teen, by @rimbaudofficial. ok so this is Not a fic that i should like, because i am a massive academic failure and despite being in my forties have regular nightmares about having to re-engage with academia for like. any reason. HOWEVER. as noted, i read indiscriminately, even when i'm like 'reading this is a terrible idea and will be upsetting for me personally!', so i was like 'well, how bad of an idea can it possibly be?' and then instead! it was. incredibly charming? it was so fucking cute? the fang duobing characterisation in this is somehow just perfect to me—he's simultaneously confident and vulnerable, and also just so deeply committed to the weird clueless guy who he's decided is meant for him. di feisheng and li lianhua have a perfect weird-bros friendship. i would read another ten chapters of this and i would love it.

[schnooglepuffs]

Ascii/UTF8 art for the prompts "Oasis + Black Cat" プロンプト「オアシスだ / くろねこ」のASCIIアート/UTF-8アート

@nanaseharukabirthdayexchange *I won't enter the plush giveaway *アメぬいハルちゃんの抽選には参加しない

[foryouthegays]

fascinating finds in youtube this fine afternoon

[newvillainontheblock]

[USER: VILE | ONLINE]

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[bluemanedhawk]

Do they make extra-sticky headphones for headbangers?

[elle-p]

Now I'm pretty sure that my Reload text viewer won't crash, and any weirdness would be obvious that it's not what the game would actually display. There are some presentation problems - mostly in creating new lines, but also because 29 of the 32 emojis show as the same ? - but it's useable.

[hopefulkittenconnoisseur]

sample letter I wrote! feel free to use, but try to modify it a little! just use the 5 extra characters to put your initials at the end or smth :3

Mrs. Harris, I write to you as an undecided voter with generally left-wing tendencies. I had planned to support you until I recently learned of some unsettling facts about your campaign & your position on Palestine. I urge you to avoid choosing Josh Shapiro as your candidate for Vice President. A large portion of your pull among young left-wing voters comes from the fact that you plan to allow for more direct civil engagement in the political process, but Josh Shapiro has made it clear that he opposes even peaceful campus assemblies. As such, choosing him as your Vice President would harm many political movements important to me, and thus harm your election chances as I and many other activists & voters like me would reconsider our electoral support for you in November. Furthermore It is no secret that to most impartial international observers, the actions that the state of Israel has taken in Palestine constitute not only an invasion, but a genocide. Cutting off humanitarian aid & bombing hospitals is not how a reasonable country reacts to a single attack. The political and materiel support the U.S has shown to Israel under your leadership is a major reason that Israel has been able to continue its assault on human rights and dignity in Palestine. While I believe it is important to ensure Donald Trump remains out of the White House during when the Supreme Court has just granted such unprecedented immunity to the office, I simultaneously cannot support the funding and political protection of the genocidal state of Israel by voting for you if you continue to express support for Israel. If you want to earn my support, and the support of tens of thousands of young voters like me, you must take a strong pro-Palestine position on the issue, that reverses the U.S policy of providing aid to Israel and instead uses the unique position the U.S holds to instead pressure Israel into ending its barbaric oppression of Palestinians, including Palestinians who live in Israel.

hello for those planning on voting for kamala harris. could y’all start emailing or calling her specifically to pressure her to stop the genocide. even if you’re a decided voter, mention you are undecided and that this is the issue you would flip on. here I’ll leave a link where you can email

[unicodenthusiast]

How does UTF-8 work - demonstration

see this for an explanation of what UTF-8 is

Red bits carry no meaning - they only tell the computer the position in the character and its length.

Black bits are the actual character, so the binary number given by reading them in order gives the Unicode number of the character.

[piratesexmachine420]

It drives me up the wall when people say they "translated something into binary". Binary is a way of writing numbers, not letters. What you mean is that you translated your arbitrary string into ASCII codepoints -- which are themselves just abstract numbers -- and then you represented those codepoints as 8-bit bytes. Not "translated", represented.

Not the same! It's pedantry, sure, but I'm annoyed regardless.