What Every Programmer Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets

See also: Joel Spolsky's "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html</a>

Just recently our company started developing WEB version of our product and our testers keep writing tests to verify that UI controls can correctly display unicode characters. Does it make much sense to do that if all our control if they are all HTML/JavaScript based?

For python people, I found this 30 min talk by Ned Batchelder extremely helpful: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHbC6udIqc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHbC6udIqc</a>

Excellent and at times amusing review. Thanks for this.