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What a Character

Explains Unicode and character encoding to software engineers, and the pitfalls of working with international characters in Java, JavaScript and Python.

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For additional code, please see utf8db2.

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Video presentation of the What a Character content.

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Unicode

"So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will."

Joel Spolsky The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Java Support

XKCD

| RTL | Encoding |

Unicode