Unicode? Character Sets? UTF-what?

I was inspired to add this note after recent frustrations about the complete ignorance of character sets in both Commercial & Open software…

I seriously recommend everyone reads the following, less ISO-blahblahblah and more UTF-8, no excuses!

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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lobstertechnology.com » Charset detection for fun and non-profit… 29th November 2005 / 11:11pm

[…] The problem of character sets is not limited to FreeDB but applies to any system where text from one character set meets another, like internet email for example. For this reason Unicode was created, a single set of characters which encompass all existing written languages. […]

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