Google grab bag: Chinese lawsuit, 9/11 ASCII art Google fended off a Chinese trademark infringement suit, and captured the sudden arrival of searches for characters that show a plane and two towers.

Okay, so our database is being updated, and 8i stores American ascii characters, and 9i uses Unicode...Now, our database has been accepting the 8th bit of special characters (when it really should ...

The comic runs in “extra editions of Weekly ASCII, a PC magazine with long history in Japan,” and a breakdown of the characters can be found here. Expand ...

Extended ASCII Extended ASCII uses eight bits, giving a character set of 256 characters. This allows for special characters such as those with accents in languages such as French and Spanish.

In <i>CELIO France SAS v Hocini</i>, a WIPO panel has ordered the transfer of the domain name 'célio.com' to CELIO France SAS, the owner of the CELIO mark. The decision demonstrates that registering a ...

A reader tipped us off to how ASCII art of an airplane is showing up in the number two position at Google Trends. When we first looked ourselves, we ...