Unicode isn’t harmful for health – Unicode Myths debunked and encodings demystified

Here's a story that I read:




if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.


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