Encodings part 1: Unicode, ASCII, UTF-8 and... Latin-1?
What is Unicode, why is it used everywhere, and what are the options? We, software developers, use string data types daily and yet, there is a lot under the surface that nowadays we don’t even think about anymore. This makes character encodings a basic thing, but is it simple? This is part 1 of a series of posts on Unicode and encodings: Encodings Part 1: Unicode, ASCII, UTF-8 and… Latin-1? Encodings Part 2: The down and dirty of UTF-8 Encodings Part 3: The down and dirty of UTF-16 Encoding, you say?...