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Interesting. For me, the underlying mechanics won't likely be remembered, but the big takeaway was a better understanding of what character sets are, why they e
by krausejj 8y ago
Interesting. For me, the underlying mechanics won't likely be remembered, but the big takeaway was a better understanding of what character sets are, why they exist from a historical perspective, and why I should care... That higher level context makes character encoding issues seems less scary and more worth trying to understand.
It's too bad he may have gotten some technical details wrong, but I found it refreshing to get a somewhat entertaining "story" along with some of the details.
- nabla9 8y agoBasically what you should now about Unicode is that code points don't conceptually match anything of interest for the users except by accident (you restrict yourself to limited number of languages and characters). Fully supporting Unicode is PITA and most apps and systems choose to cheat. It's completely OK, but you should know that you are doing it and either reject everything you can't handle or treat it as immutable sting.