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Read and download free eBook intituled Programming with Unicode in format HTML, PDF, ePub, Kindle, etc. created by .
Unicode is the nightmare of many developers (and users) for different, and sometimes good reasons.
In the 1980’s, only few people read documents in languages other their mother tongue and English. A computer supported only a small number of languages, the user configured his region to support languages of close countries. Memories and disks were expensive, all applications were written to use byte strings using 8 bits encodings: one byte per character was a good compromise.
Today with the Internet and the globalization, we all read and exchange documents from everywhere around the world (even if we don’t understand everything). The problem is that documents rarely indicate their language (encoding), and displaying a document with the wrong encoding leads to a well known problem: mojibake.
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