The Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Must Know About Unicode (2003)

This needs the "(2003)" label suffix added. While awesome, and I love Joel, this is a VERY old article indeed.

See also: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kunststube.net&#x2F;encoding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kunststube.net&#x2F;encoding&#x2F;</a> - which I personally prefer &#x2F; is more thorough in my opinion.

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This reminds me of D. Goldberg&#x27;s very old &quot;What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lsi.upc.edu&#x2F;~robert&#x2F;teaching&#x2F;master&#x2F;material&#x2F;p5-goldberg.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lsi.upc.edu&#x2F;~robert&#x2F;teaching&#x2F;master&#x2F;material&#x2F;p5-g...</a>

There was a talk at DroidCon given by Jesse Wilson that discusses this more in depth (and with a little more clarity).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T_p22jMZSrk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T_p22jMZSrk</a>

For another good article for programmers on Unicode, see this brilliant and excellent article by Joel Spolsky at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2003&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2003&#x2F;10&#x2F;08&#x2F;the-absolute-minim...</a>