Can anybody tell me where to find some clear introduction to character sets, encodings and everything releted to these things? Thanks!
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A:
I can think of two articles:
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - the legendary article from our Joel Spolsky.
Unicode - How to get characters right? - more practical and targeted on Java webdevelopment (as per your question history, you seem to be doing Java webdevelopment).
BalusC
2010-09-02 16:09:19
very nice, beat me to it!
KevinDTimm
2010-09-02 16:18:27
OP - *after* you read these, look at other references if you need to.
DaveE
2010-09-02 16:21:30
Tim Bray: [Characters versus bytes](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF)
jasso
2010-09-03 01:15:07