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Joel Spolsky's 2003 Joel On Software piece: "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)"

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...

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This meanwhile fell behind with the times. I would recommend the submitted article rather than Spolsky's.

I'm not so sure about that, Spolsky's article seems way better at introducing someone to Unicode if they don't know anything about it. The OP article goes way deeper and has more interesting insights about Unicode itself though.

Disclaimer: might be biased because I've discovered Unicode through Spolsky's article.

I didn't post it as an alternative but as a "see also."

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