Unicode and You
I’m a Unicode newbie. But like many newbies, I had an urge to learn once my interest was piqued by an introduction to Unicode.
Unicode isn’t hard to understand, but it does cover some low-level CS concepts, like byte order. Reading about Unicode is a nice lesson in design tradeoffs and backwards compatibility.
My thoughts are below. Read them alone, or …
A little diddy about binary file formats
Understanding Big and Little Endian Byte Order
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