Lazycoder

an Oldie but a goodie

Joel on Software – The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Joel Spolsky tells developers what they should know about Unicode and character encoding. It’s a pretty good read. I’m a big fan of understanding how things work under the hood even if the framework or API you are using hides all the ugly details from you. If you don’t know how things work, you can’t debug effectively and you’re going to get stuck chasing after ghosts sometimes. Worse yet, you’ll implement hacks and workarounds when you it’s not necessary.