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4 items tagged “encoding”

Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format. Google Maps does some pretty crazy bit mangling to create compressed versions of lat/long pairs. 0 4th January 2008, 4:12 pm

The larger question is why on earth, in 2007 and ten years after XML came out, we are still using text files that don’t label their encoding?

Rick Jelliffe 2 8th October 2007, 12:27 pm

Base32 encoding (via) I was on the verge of inventing this when I discovered that Douglas Crockford had invented it for me. 3 17th August 2007, 11:25 pm

pybraces. I didn’t know this was possible: a source level filter implemented as a custom -*- encoding: braces -*- 2 11th July 2007, 2:48 pm

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