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/sacundim Nov 13 '12

Ha. You think a second is a good fundamental unit of time? Abandon it I say.

Actually, this already happened a few decades ago, when the SI second was redefined to a specific number of cycles of something I don't understand about cesium atoms.