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Re:Code Page 437 Refuses to Die by dkersten on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:56AM (#11654278)
Some years ago I had to work with text encoded with 3GPP TS 23.038 [1], which is a 7bit packed encoding with a few quirks. It wasn't particularly fun.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38

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Re:Code Page 437 Refuses to Die by jfim on Sunday May 08, 2016 @02:14PM (#11655031)
The telephony standards are all kinds of bizarre. It's a testament as to how well the specs are written that it actually works.
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Re:Code Page 437 Refuses to Die by dkersten on Sunday May 08, 2016 @05:51PM (#11656097)
The specs are incredibly dense and hard to read, but they are quite detailed.

I found many of the protocols to be both incredibly clever and incredibly annoying at the same time.

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