“A rose” by any other encoding would smell as sweet?

Joel Spolsky writes a lot of good stuff on his Joel on Software site. If you’re a programmer, or even vaguely interested, and are bamboozled by this Unicode stuff and wish it would all just go away and be ASCII, like in the good old days, then I’m afraid you’re going to be disappointed. But there’s a gentle introduction in The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

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