An Introduction to Unicode

An Introduction to Unicode

By Karl Williamson
Date: Wednesday, 10 June 2015 09:00
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English


Unicode, a very large superset of ASCII and Latin1, is an ongoing project to encode all the world's languages' scripts. This talk will help you grok Unicode and how to program using it. All examples will be from the Perl 5 programming language.


Attended by: Karl Williamson, Peter Martini, Jason Hall (‎Jayce^‎), Rick Bychowski (‎rickbike‎), James Dwyer (‎Jim‎), Beth Rhinelander, Kent Schaeffer, Kevin Metcalf (‎profmetcalf‎), James Morgan (‎Ven'Tatsu‎), Wes Malone (‎wesm‎), Mike Weisenborn, Greg Cole (‎wingfold‎), Jason Fuller, Joelle Maslak, Gavin Bingham, morgan jones, Upasana Shukla (‎upasana‎), Peter Sandin, Abigail, Josh Lavin (‎digory‎), Ryan Chaudhry, Jeremy Holland, Aran Deltac (‎bluefeet‎), Travis Chase, Daina Pettit, Eric Choi, Jeremy Koch, Mike Greb (‎mikegrb‎), Drew Taylor (‎drewbie‎), Louis Erickson, Jay Hannah (‎jhannah‎), will,