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Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
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Re: Bad Characters from Unicode


  • Subject: Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:50:40 -0700

On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:30 AM, has wrote:

1. If you don't already have some understanding of character sets, encodings, the distinction between 'bytes' and 'characters', etc. then I recommend brushing up your knowledge first as you won't get far otherwise. Here's a good place to start:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

I strongly second this. In fact, if you even *think* you understand this stuff, go read the article anyway. Joel's a good and entertaining writer. The money quote:


"All that stuff about "plain text = ascii = characters are 8 bits" is not only wrong, it's hopelessly wrong, and if you're still programming that way, you're not much better than a medical doctor who doesn't believe in germs. Please do not write another line of code until you finish reading this article."


--Chris Nebel AppleScript Engineering

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