DOI addresses with brackets

Recently I got sent a DOI (document object identifier - read more here ) by a student with a set of brackets in the URL, which then refused ...

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ASCII code list

Those of you with a shorter PC history may not have heard of the American Standard Code For Information Interchange, which is commonly known...

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Favourite ASCII code symbols

For those of you who don't know, and ASCII code comes from the American Standard Code For Information Interchange (ASCII), which was set...

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Useful ASCII Codes

There are so many symbols that we can use, which simplify explaining things when writing a post. I usually have to go and find the shortcu...

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Diacriticals: hyphen, n-dash and m-dash

Ah, diacriticals. They are the marks that we use to punctuate, accent and generally add flavour and emphasis to the printed word. And t...

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