So I guess I’m like most mere mortals, in that there are certain things that my brain shies away from. Off the top of my head:
* Hard Mathematics (I didnt really like school, & it is just too terse)
* Unit Testing (Sounds like more work, and my boss is always asking me when the next features will be ready). My poor ol’ Tests directory on the project I wrote in Castle Monorail looks a tad bare, to say the least. (Yikes, who will employ me now?)
* Unicode. *shudder*.
OK, so moving through the inevitable effect *that* word has on most programmers. Ummm, WTF is Unicode, and how do I use it? Actually I understand conceptually what Unicode is (yes, if a language has more than 256 characters, it can’t be stored in a byte, mmmkay?) no problem there, its just when we get to BOMs, code pages and encodings, that the mental wheels start to fall off.
So this is a nice article, brushing over the bare necessities of Unicode. I have the feeling that it wont get me far, but it has got me thinking about the possibilities & ramifications of Unicode on the system I am working on. We have a client or two in India, and I have a feeling that multi-lingual is going to be a selling point in the nearish future.
This is going to come up again, so I will keep on the lookout for more infos. If anyone has any suggested resources (Im probably off to wikipedia now, so dont bother with that) let me know.
