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What a Character

Explains Unicode and character encoding to software engineers, and the pitfalls of working with international characters in Java, JavaScript and Python.

Slides and Code

• Overview Goes over concepts of international character identification and Unicode.
  • Concepts
  • char Data Type
• Unicode Support in Programming Languages Goes over how to handle international text in many programming languages, using powerful regular expressions, converting case, and extracting numeric data from text.
  • Java
    • Unicode Support in Java
  • Code Examples
    • Code Examples
• Encoding Goes over how to encode international text when reading and writing files, and what programmers need to be careful about in order not to get garbled data.
  • Encoding Concepts
  • Encoding Details
  • Java
    • Character Encoding with Java
  • JavaScript
    • Character Encoding with JavaScript
  • Python
    • Character Encoding with Python
  • Code Examples
    • Code Examples
• Regular Expressions Goes over how to craft regular expressions to match Unicode characaters in different languages.
  • Regular Expression Concepts
  • Code Examples
    • Code Examples

For additional code, please see utf8db2.

Video

Video presentation of the What a Character content.

References

Unicode

"So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will."

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

• An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode
• Encoding converter

Java Support

• Supplementary Characters in the Java Platform
• Supported Encodings

XKCD

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