Character Encoding

EUC-JP, UTF-16, and a Suspicion of EBCDIC — Reading Legacy Encodings in 2026

A log file from 1998 lands on your desk. grep ERROR returns nothing. The file is 12 GB, and you can see the wo…

Technical Guide

The Night the Log Wouldn’t Read — Four Character-Encoding Traps and How to Tell Them Apart

[Update, 16 October 2026] Speed today — Shift-JIS, EUC-JP and UTF-16 can now be searched fast through an index…

Technical Guide