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Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
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Tom Scott explains for Computerphile how Unicode and UTF-8 grew out of messy older character encodings to become the web's standard. It covers why the design works and how it handles worldwide text.
HN treats it as the go-to short explanation of UTF-8, praised for making the topic stick.
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