An old post which is best described by it's title: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets. Enjoy!
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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
Ever wonder about that mysterious Content-Type tag? You know, the one you’re supposed to put in HTML and you never quite know what it should be? Did you ever get an email from your friends in…
The story of UTF-8 encoding. Rob Pike and Ken Thompson have built a spec and an implementation for Plan 9 OS literally in a couple of days.
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