Character Encodings (Jack)

When you're developing software in the U.S. for a predominantly American user base, it's easy to be complacent about character encodings, because most of what you're doing falls comfortably within the ASCII space. But, as soon as you want to allow your users to use foreign characters, or even standard latin characters with accents (contained, for example, in many Spanish words), you need to be aware of how to correctly use Unicode to store, retrieve, and display your users' data. This talk delves into a real-world example of how this can go wrong if you're not paying attention.

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What has happened is: UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1(8 bit code) to UTF-8