# Unicode

## Articles

* [The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/)

## Languages are not uniform on how they handle Unicode

* Unicode handling differences between Python and JavaScript -

  <https://medium.com/better-programming/slicing-strings-containing-emoji-differences-between-python-and-javascript-4716c419718f>


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