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Table should not only use color to encode information (but formatting like bold and underline)
[edit]As in a previous comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:UTF-8/Archive_1#Colour_in_example_table? this has been done before, and is *better* so that everyone can clearly see the different part of the code. Relying on color alone is not good, due to color vision deficiencies and varying color rendition on devices.
Microsoft script dead link
[edit]and Microsoft has a script for Windows 10, to enable it by default for its program Microsoft Notepad
"Script How to set default encoding to UTF-8 for notepad by PowerShell". gallery.technet.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/How-to-set-default-2d9669ae?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-1ayuyj6iLWwQHN_gI6Np_w&tduid=(1f29517b2ebdfe80772bf649d4c144b1)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-1ayuyj6iLWwQHN_gI6Np_w)()
This link is dead. How to fix it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Un1Gfn (talk • contribs) 02:58, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
- That text, and that link, appears to have been removed, so there's no longer anything to fix. Guy Harris (talk) 23:43, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
The article contains "{{efn", which looks like a mistake.
I would've fixed it myself but I don't know how to transform the remaining sentence to make sense. 2A01:C23:8D8D:BF00:C070:85C1:B1B8:4094 (talk) 16:17, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- I fixed it, I think. I'm not 100% sure it's how the previous editors intended. I invite them to review and confirm. Indefatigable (talk) 19:03, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Should "The Manifesto" be mentioned somewhere?
[edit]More specifically, this one: https://utf8everywhere.org -- Preceding unsigned comment added by Rudxain (talk o contribs) 21:52, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
- Only if it's got significant coverage in reliable sources. Remsense 22:10, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
- It's kind of ahistorical, since the Microsoft decisions that they deplore were made while developing Windows NT 3.1, and UTF-8 wasn't even a standard until Windows NT 3.1 was close to being released. There was more money to be made from East Asian customized computer systems than Unicode computer systems in 1993, so Unicode was probably not their main focus at that time... AnonMoos (talk) 20:30, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
The number of 3 byte encodings is incorrect
[edit]This sentence is incorrect:
Three bytes are needed for the remaining 61,440 codepoints...
FFFF - 0800 + 1 = F800 = 63,488 three byte codepoints.
The other calculations for 1, 2, and 4 byte encodings are correct. Bantling66 (talk) 02:56, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- You forgot to subtract 2048 surrogates in the D800–DFFF range. – MwGamera (talk) 08:58, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
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