UTF-8 is a brilliant design(iamvishnu.com)
777 points by vishnuharidas | 305 comments
A blog post explaining how UTF-8 encoding represents millions of characters while remaining backward compatible with ASCII.
#text-encoding on Hacker News
4 stories tagged text-encoding, newest first.
Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji(paulbutler.org)
690 points by paulgb | 185 comments
Blog post by Paul Butler showing how arbitrary data can be hidden in an emoji or any Unicode character using variation selectors, with a decoder demo.
CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished(fossil-scm.org)
337 points by km | 188 comments
An essay on the Fossil SCM site arguing that the CRLF line-ending convention is obsolete and that bare newline should be used instead.
What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023(tonsky.me)
851 points by mrzool | 498 comments
Nikita Prokopov's (tonsky) blog post explaining the essentials of Unicode that software developers should know in 2023, updating Joel Spolsky's classic essay.