He wrote an excellent guide that summarizes many of the issues surrounding Unicode ... 1-byte characters designed for IBM’s EBCDIC systems (note: I think it’s safe to argue that using EBCDIC ...

Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail all support UTF-8 Unicode special ... of these browsers. Use the TwitterKeys applet to spice up your Twitter posts with special characters and symbols.

This number represents the Unicode value of the symbol, and it’s the time-honored standard for adding characters. If you use a few special characters consistently, it can be faster to simply add ...