Unicode? Character Sets? UTF-what?
I was inspired to add this note after recent frustrations about the complete ignorance of character sets in both Commercial & Open software. I seriously recommend everyone reads the following, less ISO-blahblahblah and more UTF-8, no excuses!
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
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