Perl guru Tom Christiansen's recipes for working with Unicode in Perl 5 (on Perl.com)

the Perl.com blog

Ned Batchelder: Pragmatic Unicode (in Python)

Ned Batchelder: Pragmatic Unicode

nice slides

Unicode (UTF-8) Test – looks a little like the ASCII table from the old times

Unicode (UTF-8) Test

Unicode, UTF-8, Plan 9

Unicode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Did you know, that "UTF-8 was originally developed for Plan 9"?!

Unicode and emoticons

Emoticon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Emoticons are introduced in Unicode Standard version 6.0. It covers unicode range from 1F600 to 1F64F."

.properties - Java's Property Resource Bundles

.properties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• For Western Europeans it's quite comfortable to be able to edit .properties files in ISO-8859-1 aka Latin-1.
• The 1st German .properties file, that I came across, was actually written using '\u00HH' for the German umlauts, with HH being the hexadecimal digits of the Latin-1 encoding of the character.
  I looked up the Wikipedia article on Unicode, and I learned that this is a perfectly legal encoding of the Latin-1 character set, i.e. the 1st 256 characters of Latin-1 and Unicode (resp. its "BMP") are the same.
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