Character Encoding

Here are some useful links and posts about the topic:

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets(Joel on Software).

• Unicode (Jenkov).

• UTF-8 (Jenkov).

• WHATWG HTML Spec on Parsing Documents.

• JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? (Mathias Bynens).

• JavaScript has a Unicode problem (Mathias Bynens)

• UTF-8 for the Impatient (Skybert)

• The importance of language-level abstract Unicode strings (Unspecified Behavior blog).

• Unicode / List of Useful Symbols (Wikibooks).

• TLDP Unicode How To.

• Unicode and JavaScript (Speaking JS).

• Unicode and JavaScript (2ality).

• How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases (Mathias Bynens).

• Testing Ruby’s Unicode Support (HoneyBadger).

Other:

• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/25/ruby-2-4-0-released/. Notes on some string methods supporting UTF-8.

Topics

• Useful Unicode Symbols
  • Ruby