/Unicode

What Has Case Distinction But Is Neither Uppercase Nor Lowercase?

- Raymond Chen tl;dr: “If you go exploring the Unicode Standard, you may be surprised to find that there are some characters that have case distinction yet are themselves neither uppercase nor lowercase. Congratulations, you found the mysterious third case: Title case.”

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Unicode Is Harder Than You Think

- Marco Cilloni tl;dr: “This article attempts to briefly summarize and clarify some of the most common misconceptions I’ve seen people struggle with, and some of the pitfalls that tend to recur in codebases that have to deal with non-ASCII text.”

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How UTF-8 Works 

- Seth Michael Larson tl;dr: "I recently learned how UTF-8 works and felt that the definition lended itself perfectly to creating diagrams explaining the implementation. I created these diagrams for my own enjoyment and wanted to share them. Hopefully this will inspire you to learn how other low-level protocols work too!"

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Emoji Under The Hood

- Nikita Prokopov tl;dr: "I thought it might be fun sharing a few nitty-gritty details of how this “biggest innovation in human communication since the invention of the letter” works under the hood." Nikita shows us the various ways in which emojis can be encoded. 

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Unicode is Kind Of Insane

- Ben Frederickson

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