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  2. Housecarl - Wikipedia

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    A housecarl (Old Norse: húskarl; Old English: huscarl) was a non-servile manservant or household bodyguard in medieval Northern Europe. The institution originated amongst the Norsemen of Scandinavia, and was brought to Anglo-Saxon England by the Danish conquest in the 11th century. They were well-trained, and paid as full-time soldiers.

  3. Unicode in Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft was one of the first companies to implement Unicode in their products. Windows NT was the first operating system that used "wide characters" in system calls.Using the (now obsolete) UCS-2 encoding scheme at first, it was upgraded to the variable-width encoding UTF-16 starting with Windows 2000, allowing a representation of additional planes with surrogate pairs.

  4. Hersir - Wikipedia

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    A hersir was a local Viking military commander of a hundred (a county subdivision), of about 100 men, and owed allegiance to a jarl or king. They were also aspiring landowners, and, like the middle class in many feudal societies, supported the kings in their centralization of power.

  5. Text editor - Wikipedia

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    A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. An example of such program is "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). [1] [2] [3] Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be used to change files such as configuration files, documentation files and programming language ...

  6. OpenType - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Windows 10 Anniversary Update was the first OS to support all four color font extensions, and Microsoft Edge was the first browser to do so. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] In OpenType Version 1.8.3, the specification for the SVG table was revised to be more constrained, providing more clarity for implementations and better interoperability.

  7. Category:Windows text editors - Wikipedia

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  8. Character encoding - Wikipedia

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    Punched tape with the word "Wikipedia" encoded in ASCII.Presence and absence of a hole represents 1 and 0, respectively; for example, W is encoded as 1010111.. Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using computers. [1]

  9. Alternating caps - Wikipedia

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    Alternating caps, [1] also known as studly caps [a], sticky caps (where "caps" is short for capital letters), or spongecase (in reference to the "Mocking Spongebob" internet meme) is a form of text notation in which the capitalization of letters varies by some pattern, or arbitrarily (often also omitting spaces between words and occasionally some letters).