As nearly anyone who’s worked with me will attest to, I’ve long since touted nedbat’s talk Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain? as one of the most foundational talks, and required watching for all programmers. The reason is because netbat hits on something bigger - something more fundamental than how to handle Unicode – it’s how to handle data which is relative. For those who want the TL;DR, the argument is as follows: Facts of Life: Computers work with Bytes. Bytes go in,...
