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

You might get a Microsoft Word 2007 email attachment from friends, co-workers or others - especially someone from another country - that can't be read. The text file may contain unusual strings of ...

If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

While working on a Microchip PIC project, I created a set of SCPI-style (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) commands to control the PIC. These SCPI commands use the first four characters ...