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I’ve re-read so many times Joel’s article on Unicode. It’s also very helpful. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-dev

• mixmastamyk 1y ago
  Read that a few times back then as well, but that and other pieces of the day never told you how to actually write a program that supported Unicode. Just facts about it. So I went around fixing UnicodeErrors in Python at random, for years, despite knowing all that stuff. It wasn't until I read Batchelder's piece on the "Unicode Sandwich," about a decade later that I finally learned how to write a program to support it properly, rather than playing whack-a-mole.
  • rmunn 1y ago
    > ... Batchelder's piece on the "Unicode Sandwich," ... Is this the piece you mean? https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html
    • mixmastamyk 1y ago
      I think so, looks like it was from a presentation.
  • mixmastamyk 1y ago
    ^Necessary but not sufficient.