The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023
tonsky.me The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
3
comments
The "everything is UTF-8" made my cringe. No it's not. Win32 uses UTF-16. So does JS. Those are just the ones I know off the top of my head. I will give you that a lot of plain text documents are UTF-8. Also worth pointing out that an ASCii string is a UTF-8 string
I'm not sure if they updated the article in the 3 days since your comment, but every point you raise is discussed in the post.
Overall, a good primer to Unicode for those unfamiliar, IMO.
I learned a lot from this article.