Explains how to convert HTTP header values from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 encoding in a ColdFusion application, specifically for Cloudflare geo-headers.
Explains why emojis like 🧑🌾 cause inconsistent cursor movement in terminals due to grapheme clusters and offers solutions for developers.
Explains the challenges of using non-ASCII characters in R packages for global portability, and why CRAN enforces checks.
Explains how JavaScript strings are sequences of UTF-16 code units, not visible characters, covering length quirks with emojis.
A historical journey through data storage mediums, from punch cards to modern DRAM, explaining how a single byte is represented.
A personal account of the creation of UTF-8, the dominant character encoding for the web, by one of its co-inventors.
A developer details a tricky middleware bug in a Clojure web scraping framework that caused character encoding issues due to header casing.
A technical guide exploring Swift's Unicode-compliant string handling, focusing on CharacterView and encoding-specific views for developers.
A guide explaining Unicode fundamentals and how JavaScript handles characters, including common pitfalls and ECMAScript 2015 features.
Explains the purpose and importance of the <meta charset='UTF-8'> tag in HTML for proper character encoding.
A guide to removing Byte Order Marks (BOM) from files using a simple PHP code snippet.
Explains JavaScript's surprising Unicode handling, common pain points, and how ECMAScript 6 improves the situation.
Explains why MySQL's 'utf8' charset is incomplete and how to use 'utf8mb4' for full Unicode support, including emojis.
Explores whether JavaScript uses UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding, detailing the differences and implications for handling Unicode characters.
A technical guide explaining character escape sequences in JavaScript, covering code points, single character escapes, and encoding details.
A developer explores using Unicode ligatures to shorten tweets, creating a script called 'ligatweet' and analyzing browser support for special characters.
A developer solves a Java resource bundle encoding issue for Japanese characters using the native2ascii utility.
Explains the difference between encode() and encodeURIComponent() in JavaScript for correctly handling special characters like Swedish å, ä, ö in URI parameters.
