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Lots of nice juicy history and interesting detail, but someone who doesn't understand Unicode at all should probably start with this classic article first: htt
by alister 12y ago
Lots of nice juicy history and interesting detail, but someone who doesn't understand Unicode at all should probably start with this classic article first:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
(The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets)
and then return to read the featured article.
- rspeer 12y agoI'm glad, however, that there is a more modern description. Joel's article dates from a time (2000) when UCS-2 sounded like a good idea. I'll observe that this article is very C-centric. If Python is how you think about things, I recommend the Python Unicode HOWTO, which of course has two different relevant versions at the moment: For Python 2: https://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/unicode.html https://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/unicode.html For Python 3: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html