Code Pages and Kohuepts: The Chaos of 8 Bit Extended ASCII

"But it's plain text! What do you mean it looks weird?" Friends, let's take a walk around the wonderful world of code pages, the cause of more encoding headaches, bizarre punctuation and inventive workarounds than just about anything else in IT history - and along the way, we'll meet some other things which aren't really encoding standards, but which have cast their long shadow on the way folks interact with digital data in the age of the World Wide Web.