Over on YouTube [Nic Barker] gives us: UTF-8, Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when you deal with ...

Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that ...

Many of the fonts included with Microsoft Windows have support for languages with non-Latin characters such as Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. However, you must configure Outlook 2010 to use Unicode UTF-8 ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the character encoding in Excel or ...

In English, letters with accents (diacritics) are pretty rare. Since Midæval times, diacritics have apparently fallen into disfavor. These days, people would rather cooperate than coöperate and are no ...

OK. So, I inherited an ASP 3.0 web app that I just recently realized has a character encoding problem. Long story short, the data that users are submitting has started to become riddled with jacked-up ...

Japanese characters often become garbled when you work with CSV or text files in Microsoft Excel. To avoid the problem, use the Unicode encoding option when importing the data into Excel. Unicode is ...