{"id":255,"date":"2003-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/10\/13\/188\/"},"modified":"2003-10-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-12T22:00:00","slug":"188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/10\/13\/188\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel on Software &#8211; The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/Unicode.html\" title=\"Joel on Software - The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)\">Joel on Software<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues, blithely using 8 bits for characters, making it darn near impossible to develop good international web applications, I thought, enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p>So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don&#8217;t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I&#8217;m going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel on Software: &#8222;When I discovered that the popular web development tool PHP has almost complete ignorance of character encoding issues, blithely using 8 bits for characters, making it darn near impossible to develop good international web applications, I thought, enough is enough. So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}