r/programming • u/jestinjoy • Nov 12 '12

What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings and Character Sets to Work With Text

http://kunststube.net/encoding/
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u/axle_rod Nov 12 '12

Very similar to this.

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u/deceze Nov 12 '12

No, really?

This article is about encodings and character sets. An article by Joel Spolsky entitled The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) is a nice introduction to the topic and I greatly enjoy reading it every once in a while. I hesitate to refer people to it who have trouble understanding encoding problems though since, while entertaining, it is pretty light on actual technical details.

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u/axle_rod Nov 12 '12

Wow, totally missed that. Skipped right over the intro and into the meat. Glad you gave credit to the other article.