Character Sets & Unicode In Computers

While programming, we never think about unicode/characters etc, if we work mostly with US clients alone.


But if we work with Indian clients/Europe clients/Japanese clients, we will come to know, why this topic is of utmost importance. Every developer should know about this.


It does not make sense to have a string without knowing what encoding it uses.


For Complete details read the below links


http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html


.NET String Handling:


http://csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/Unicode.aspx


http://csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/strings.aspx