What is an intuitive explanation of Unicode and why a programmer needs to know it?
11th February 2012
My answer to What is an intuitive explanation of Unicode and why a programmer needs to know it? on Quora
Check out “The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)” by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ar...
For Python in particular, this article is useful: http://www.evanjones.ca/python-u...
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