The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023

3 years ago by just_hiroshi to c/furprogs

Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky

SquishyPandaDev 3 points 3 years ago

The "everything is UTF-8" made my cringe. No it's not. Win32 uses UTF-16. So does JS. Those are just the ones I know off the top of my head. I will give you that a lot of plain text documents are UTF-8. Also worth pointing out that an ASCii string is a UTF-8 string

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paroxon 2 points 3 years ago

I'm not sure if they updated the article in the 3 days since your comment, but every point you raise is discussed in the post.

Overall, a good primer to Unicode for those unfamiliar, IMO.

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ALERT 2 points 3 years ago

I learned a lot from this article.

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