Image: Frederico Bittencourt
When I was studying computer science, myself and my class mates always had at least one topic that was a blind spot. An area that we were either too afraid or too lazy to dive into and learn the details properly. For me and some others, character encoding was one such topic.
Thankfully, Frederico Bittencourt posted a great primer blog post on UTF-8 character encoding, describing the format used to encode special characters in more than one byte. A great place to start shining a light on some of those learning blind spots. (See also Regex).
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