Unicorn Problems - Verdone

Unicorn Problems

Mane mange and horn homeopathy

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Unicode Problems

The curse of the UnicodeDecodeError

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A String is not what you think it is

A string is a finite sequence of symbols The set of its symbols is the string's alphabet These symbols can be anything

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There are t wo kinds of strings we care about

Byte strings:

containing numbers from 0 - 255

Unicode Strings

containing characters from the 109,000 in the Unicode set

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Transformation

You can transform strings bet ween these t wo types using an encoding

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