Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

While building and testing code meant to properly handle arbitrary UTF-8 strings, you might want to make use of some test documents that include every possible Unicode codepoint. These would include ...

Unicode is an international standard that allows software programs such as Microsoft Excel to display characters from foreign alphabets such as Chinese or Cyrillic, which can be very helpful if you ...

I am trying to chase down this issue and it comes down to Builder. Rails ActiveResource uses ActiveSupport's to_xml method which in return call Builder to generate the xml. Builder will generate the ...

UTF-8 is an ASCII-preserving encoding method for Unicode (ISO 10646), the Universal Character Set (UCS). The UCS encodes most of the world's writing systems in a single character set, allowing you to ...

Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...

Many of the fonts included with Microsoft Windows have support for languages with non-Latin characters such as Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. However, you must configure Outlook 2010 to use Unicode UTF-8 ...