When developing software that is to be used in multiple languages, it is essential to support a character set that will render any character. Unicode, a standard for representing text of all the world’s writing systems fills this void, allowing for full character support and workable software in all languages.
In this 4-minute video, software internationalization expert Adam Asnes illustrates:
- How character encoding has evolved
- Why Unicode is essential for commercial software
- The differences in Unicode encoding; i.e.: UTF-8 and UTF-16
- Keyboards and Internationalization
- Internationalization, Localization, and Translation: What’s the difference?