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A procedure is described for the relatively efficient encoding of sequences of characters which have predecessor-successor selection rules. The procedure is shown to assign a unique integer to each ...

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When developing web applications and systems, security considerations are essential when displaying user-inputted text in a browser. For example, if an input string contains tags such as <script>, ...

In data integration with legacy Windows systems or Excel, there are still many situations where you need to handle Shift-JIS format files. However, in modern .NET (.NET 5 and later), older character ...

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There may be times when you are working in the Linux terminal and suddenly see the “can’t set the locale” error and see some mysterious characters like ...

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...