Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or Word.

Potential area(s) of collaboration: TEI; GIS; concordance (like AConCord); transliteration; construction of parallel corpora; digital lexicography (e.g., https ...

I've just built a web software app implemented mainly in Javascript, which involves a lot of user-entered text which must be stored and retrieved from a server-based database. So user-entered text is ...

Software developers often need to write code that handles chunks of text typed by a user and whose content is therefore unpredictable. Every programming language has methods for dealing with such text ...

Many of the emails released by the Department of Justice from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are full of garbled ...