The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode
Amusingly enough, Joel's company does not follow Joel's preaching.<p>I tried to convince Fog Creek to abandon the obsolete, non-standard and proprietary 8-bit Windows-CP1252 character encoding in the E-mails that FogBugz sends. They refused, reason given: "joelonsoftware.com is a blog. Fog Creek Software is a business."