Intro to Unicode

Nick Patch will be giving a talk at YAPC::NA 2012 described as:

UTF-8 is the most popular character encoding on the web and has been for 5 years.  Modern applications have to be developed with an understanding of Unicode, and this raises a lot of important questions since the good old days of ASCII.  What is a character? … a code point? … a grapheme?  This talk will bring you up to speed on character codes, Unicode, and UTF-8.

[From the YAPC::NA Blog.]

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Here's the updated description of this talk, which is now called Fundamental Unicode.

UTF-8 is the most popular character encoding on the web and has been for 5 years. Modern applications have to be developed with an understanding of Unicode. Fortunately, Perl is rich in functionality for working with Unicode data. This talk will bring you up to speed on Unicode and its encodings and then dive into Perl hacking with Unicode.

For those interested in Unicode—and I hope you are!—also check out Tom Christiansen's Unicode Regexes session.

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