Unicode, in friendly terms: ASCII, UTF-8, code points, character encodings, and more

Ever been bit by a Unicode bug? Maybe you weren't treating UTF-8 encoded data correctly, or tried to read it as ASCII? Maybe you mixed up UTF-8 vs UTF-16? Unicode and character encoding might seem like a tricky topic, but let's break them down and learn about them piece by piece, from ASCII to code points to graphemes to combining character modifiers and more.

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00:00 Intro
00:12 All Data Is Stored As Bits
00:41 How To Store Characters Using ASCII
01:38 What About All The Other Languages?
02:14 Graphemes Map To One Or More Code Points
03:18 Code Points Map To One Or More Bytes
03:44 UTF-32 Is Wasteful
04:43 UTF-8 Is Better
05:40 Unicode is Western-Language-Centric
06:41 Mid-Video Recap
07:52 Live Python Demo
09:47 Unicode Rules Of Thumb
10:14 Looking At A Code Point

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