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Who invented UTF-8?

UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ
The encoding known today as UTF-8 was invented by Ken Thompson. It was born during the evening hours of 1992-09-02 in a New Jersey diner, where he designed it in the presence of Rob Pike on a placemat (see Rob Pike's UTF-8 history).
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How do I get UTF-8?

Tomcat FAQ - Miscellaneous Questions
It is not broken, your tag probably is. Many bug reports have been filed about this. Here is the bug report with all the gory details.
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Who invented it, and why?

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The Arm's Reach Bedside Co-Sleeper? was invented by Diana Tharalson in 1980, when pregnant with her first child. Diana and her husband Douglas, decided that they wanted to sleep with the baby in their bed. Fearing that they might roll over on the baby. Douglas made up something to allow the baby to sleep next to her but not in the bed itself. Douglas improved upon the Co-Sleeper? every four years for the next three Tharalson babies, and this resulted in the Co-Sleeper? available today.
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featherhawk essences * Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Flower essences were first developed in the 1930's by the English physician, Edward Bach. Dr. Bach was a classically trained physician who became a pioneer in understanding the relationship of emotions to the health of body and mind. Today we call this the "body/mind connection." You can also use the tongue-twister, "psychoneuroimmunology." He observed that many physical diseases could be directly related to a person's mental attitude.
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RL FAQ
There is plenty of blame here to go around. Minsky, Bellman, Howard, Andreae, Werbos, Barto, Sutton, Watkins... All played important or early roles. See the history from the Sutton and Barto text.
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Pyranha Insecticides Inc. / Frequently Asked Questions
Carl Cunningham, Pyranha Incorporated’s founder created and patented the first automatic misting system in 1972 for the control of flies in horse barns and called it SprayMaster™ . More than three decades later the basic SprayMaster™ design is still the model for all misting systems in the market.
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Who invented RESPeRATE?

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Dr. Benjamin Gavish, InterCure's Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, patented and developed a fundamental method of affecting biological rhythms and respiration with external rhythms such as melody, which led to the development of RESPeRATE, the company's first product.
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Who invented aerogel?

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Aerogel was first made in the 1930s by Samuel S. Kistler, who obtained several patents for making a variety of aerogel, including silica, alumina, chromia, tin and carbon.
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UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ
UCS and Unicode are first of all just code tables that assign integer numbers to characters. There exist several alternatives for how a sequence of such characters or their respective integer values can be represented as a sequence of bytes. The two most obvious encodings store Unicode text as sequences of either 2 or 4 bytes sequences. The official terms for these encodings are UCS-2 and UCS-4, respectively.
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When was the call invented?

Cass Creek International
Cass Creek Calls have been on the drawing board for over 10 years. The unique features of the call set it apart from other calls. The patent was filed in the spring of 2002, having both a national and international patent pending.
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acoustical engineer wanted to test the timing accuracy of professional musicians. He put a metronome beat at a slow pace into headphones ? 54 beats per minute ? slower than the slowest paced music, Baroque ? and had them tap hand and foot sensors for a computer to measure how accurate they were to "perfect timing." He was able to measure with high precision - to the ten thousands of a second ahead and behind the perfect beat.
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How to you handle UTF-8?

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Grapeshot has a very professional approach to a multitude of character sets. Grapeshot indexing routines identify the character set in use within a document and introduces appropriate stemming routines as part of tokenising the words or phrases within the incoming text. Tokenisation includes word splitting or character separation, as well as dealing with the ideosyncracies of punctuation within each language.
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Who invented essences?

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Vibrational essences are a part of ancient wisdom, and have been found in aboriginal cultures throughout the world. The 16th century master physician and herbalist Paracelsus also used essences. The best-known essence maker of the modern world is the English physician Dr. Edward Bach. He re-invented essences in the 1930's, creating the popular Bach Flower Remedies. They are used widely throughout the world. In the past 15 years or so, many new essences companies were founded all over the world.
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Question: Who invented Decompression Therapy?

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Answer:It was developed by Dr. Allen Dyer, a world-renowned medical researcher who invented the cardiac defibrillator that went around the globe to revive heart attack victims. Dr. Dyer holds an M.D., a Ph.D. and a pharmaceutical degree. He is the former deputy minister with the Ministry of Health in Ontario, Canada.
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WHEN WERE BALLOONS INVENTED?

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Balloons have been around for centuries.  The modern latex balloon that we are familiar with was invented in New England during the Great Depression. A chemical engineer named Neil Tillotson was attempting to make inner tubes using liquid latex, which was a new product.  He was having no luck.  In his frustration is cut out a cat's head and dipped it in the latex.  When it dried he found that he had a cat head.
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Who invented geocaching?

Buxley's Geocaching Waypoint - Frequently Asked Questions
The first cache was placed by Dave Ulmer near Portland, Oregon on May 3rd, 2000. Three days later, two people who had read about the cache on the sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup found the cache and entered their names in its log: geocaching was born! You are welcome to link to any of my pages from your web site but please do not place copies of this site's maps on your own web page. Geocache data has been gathered from geocaching.com, navicache.com, and other sources. We thank them all!
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Who invented Preterism?

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Answer: The short answer is Jesus Christ; Jesus (followed by all his disciples) was the one teaching a first-century Second Coming. The long answer is that Preterism has always been a minor voice throughout Church history. Church fathers like Eusebius of Caesarea, St. John Chrysostom, St. Basil the Great and many others were either Preterists or showed strong Preteristic tendencies.
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Another seller claims he invented it. What are the facts?

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Microdermabrasion products of microfiber are one of the hottest items on eBay for one simple reason. ? They work, and they work extraordinarily well. ? For that reason there are many sellers promoting microfiber products.
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How and why was the piano invented?

The Piano Education Page - Piano Frequently Asked Questions ...
The mechanical genius Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano around 1700. The name piano is actually a shortened version of the Italian term pianoforte, meaning soft-loud, and referring to the fact that the pianoforte could produce sound volume covering a much larger range than its predecessors, the harpsichord and clavichord.
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Who invented the issue, and why?

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In 1988 gun prohibition activist Josh Sugarmann circulated a paper among anti-gun groups, telling them that they needed a "new issue" to "strengthen the handgun restriction lobby," because their efforts to ban handguns had failed.
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What can I do with a UTF-8 string?

Perl-XML Frequently Asked Questions
You could obviously convert a UTF-8 encoded string to some other encoding, but before we get on to that, let's look at what you can do with it in its 'natural state'. If you wish to display the string in a web browser, no conversion is necessary. Modern browsers can understand UTF-8 directly, as can be seen on this page on the kermit project web site (some characters in the page will not display correctly without the correct fonts installed but that's a font issue rather than an encoding issue).
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What is the UTF-8 encoding?

Java Internationalization FAQ
UTF-8 stands for Unicode (or UCS) Transformation Format, 8-bit encoding form. It is a transmission format for Unicode that uses 8-bit code units.
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What is the definition of UTF-8?

FAQ - UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM
UTF-8 is the byte-oriented encoding form of Unicode. For details of its definition, see Section 2.5 “Encoding Forms” and Section 3.9 “ Unicode Encoding Forms ” in the Unicode Standard. See, in particular, Table 3-5 UTF-8 Bit Distribution and Table 3-6 Well-formed UTF-8 Byte Sequences, which give succinct summaries of the encoding form. Also see sample code which implements conversions between UTF-8 and other encoding forms.
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Who invented Coca-Cola? Where and when was it invented?

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Coca-Cola was invented in May 1886 by Dr. John S. Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. The name "Coca-Cola" was suggested by Dr. Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Robinson. He penned the name Coca-Cola in the flowing script that is famous today. Coca-Cola was first sold at a soda fountain in Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta by Willis Venable. During the first year, sales of Coca-Cola averaged nine drinks a day, adding up to total sales for that year of $50. Since the year's expenses were just over $70, Dr.
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So how do we get invalid UTF-8 sequences into an Oracle database?

TOYS Frequently Asked Questions
The most common cause is the move towards UTF-8 as the database character set. This is a good idea but unfortunately there appear to be implementation issues which need to be resolved. Basically, if the character set on the client is set to the same as the character set on the server then Oracle does not validate that the character data passed to it is actually valid.
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What is UTF-8 Character Encoding in WebMail?

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Outbound messages sent from WebMail are fully standards compliant with The Unicode Standard, the Internationally recognized standard for multilingual communication on the Internet and all modern computer systems worldwide. Unicode ensures that the characters you use in your message are the same characters that the recipient of your message sees.
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