"by Martin J. Dürst, 11th International Unicode Conference, San Jose, CA, USA, September 1997"

"There is no such thing as a definitive list of languages and even if there was, the list of languages supported in Unicode changes across various incarnations of Unicode. Oh, and there are languages with unbounded sets of "characters" such as Chinese which literally cannot be fully described in Unicode."

"What Python 3 does by default is read and write using the platform default encoding. On a Mac that will be 'mac-roman' and on Windows in the UK it will be something like CP1252... The answer to this is that in fact now that we are always decoding when we read a file in as text (or writing text out to a file), it is even more important that we are aware of the encoding being used. "

Yes, yes, yes, yes! Like he says, the Unicode improvements alone make Python 3.0 worth it.

Weeee!

"Pickers allow you to quickly create phrases in a script by clicking on Unicode characters arranged in a way that aids their identification."

phputf8 - Tools for working with UTF-8 in PHP

I good page to share with colleagues

inline tags + spaces + bidi = fun!

And now... really - who doesn't like a little unicode humor?

"Everson Mono is a simple, elegant, monowidth font designed for general purpose use"

Apparently zsh isn't very UTF-8 aware. Bummer