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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
OS=$1
INSTALLDIR=${2:-"."}
function githubLatestTag {
finalUrl=`curl https://github.com/$1/releases/latest -s -L -I -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}'`
echo "${finalUrl##*v}"
}

Text Encoding

How are text files encoded, and what are the pros and cons of different encodings? This document introduces the ASCII and Unicode encodings to answer these questions. Some short pieces of Go code are provided which you can run yourself to see how strings are being encoded. Go is used because it has built-in support for Unicode, but you should be able to follow without any knowledge of Go.

ASCII

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Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.box = "ubuntu/focal64"
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant"
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/home/vagrant/sync"
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.memory = "4096"
vb.cpus = 2
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--uart1", "0x3F8", "4"]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "file", File::NULL]