Global by Design

Here is a great article about Unicode and how it affects Web developers and programmers. Here’s an excerpt:
The Single Most Important Fact About Encodings
If you completely forget everything I just explained, please remember one extremely important fact. It does not make sense to have a string without knowing what encoding it uses. You can no [...]

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Another useful Web globalization Q&A has been added to the W3C site. It has to do with the issue of character sets and encodings. I can’t even begin to describe how confusing this issue can be to Web developers as they begin tackling new languages — and new scripts. But is is something they will [...]

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