This is probably a good time to re-link to "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets" by

This is probably a good time to re-link to "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets" by Joel. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html