Published October 17th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
What you should know about Unicode
Joel firnly beleives that every developer should know about 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.
Useful stuff.