As someone with a training in architecture and architectural history, I'd think twice before paying money for an edition of this. Any plate from the book is very recognizable. It's marginally useful as a sourcebook, but you won't learn much from it, and its limitations start to grate pretty quickly.
It's misleading to describe UTF-8 as "the most fundamental encoding", because of the existence of UTF-32 (essentially just a trivial encoding of "raw" Unicode code points) and UTF-16 (which has certain limitations that later became part of the specification of what code points are valid in any encoding)
Here's the Hollywood Reporter, adding context to an article about how the Barbie movie didn't do well in Korea:
'But in Korea, a country where gender disparity and anti-feminist backlash are prevalent, the film’s focus — albeit uplifting — on female empowerment may have sparked discomfort and even fatigue.
“Given how gender has been politicized and became a polarizing issue in Korea in the past few years, young people seem to be easily exhausted by discussions around gender,” says Kang Yu-jeong, a professor of Cultural Contents at Kangnam University in the city of Yongin. “It’s such a sensitive topic for the younger generation — the film’s main target — that they want to avoid it entirely.”'
The Met recommends (https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/in-circulation/2018/grammar-...) this scanned version of the 1856 edition at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone/
As someone with a training in architecture and architectural history, I'd think twice before paying money for an edition of this. Any plate from the book is very recognizable. It's marginally useful as a sourcebook, but you won't learn much from it, and its limitations start to grate pretty quickly.