Unicode Geekitude

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If you are in any way interested in how languages like Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic and English can all play nicely together on the intarwebs, read The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!).

If you don't care how it happens, you just want to continue through your friends list, read it anyway to gain an appreciation of how hard it is to make Ðiß ſoʀṫ øf þiŋ hæppén trånſpärēntłÿ.

Comments

[brong.livejournal.com]

Tell that to the standards writers too. I can't believe that WebDAV doesn't enforce and encoding scheme on URIs. Fuckers. And of course every client does it differently so you wind up having to either just store and present 8 bit or guess.