A reintroduction to XML with an emphasis on character encoding...has things to say about encoding that you almost certainly either don't know at all, or haven't yet fully grasped.
Please note: This application encodes and decodes ASCII and ANSI text. Only codepoints < 128 are ASCII. This provided for educational and entertainment use only.
Today 38 years ago, the Universal Product Code barcode was introduced to the public. A supermarket in Troy, Ohio scanned the first product, which was a pack of Wrigley's gum.
This site gives details of The Ambisonics Association and its work. The Association was created in April 2008, with the general aim of promoting ambisonics. Its initial work is concentrated in the (fairly technical) areas of the creation and promotion of collective marks ('trademarks'), standards (e.g. for file formats) and other necessary infrastructure for ambisonics.
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