An introduction to character encoding, and why emoji isn’t just about emoji

As a developer, understanding character encoding adds a lot of clarity to your work, especially when you’re dealing with text that contains characters beyond A-Z. If you’ve ever migrated a database from one site to another and ended up with jumbled characters in your content, this talk is for you. I’ll also explain why emoji in WordPress is the PR face of something much deeper and more important.

Speaker: John Blackbourn

I’m a senior WordPress developer at Human Made in the UK. I’m a WordPress core developer, a member of the WordPress security team, and I was the release lead for WordPress 4.1.

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