charsets.md

Unicode & Character Sets

UTF-8 & unicode everywhere

iconv: character set conversion

iconv -f ISO_8859-1 -t UTF-8 $i > tmpfile

MySQL

CREATE DATABASE mydb
CHARACTER SET utf8mb4
COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

Useful

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/List_of_useful_symbols

␣ ☐ • ► - TODO
★ ☒ ✗ ✘ - KO
☆ ☑ ✓ ✔ - OK
↺  - OTHER

Links

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/11/character-sets-encoding-emoji/
• http://www.emojitracker.com
• https://github.com/migonzalvar/talks/tree/master/2016-11-php-vigo
• https://github.com/BurntSushi/dotfiles/blob/cb01234174bd58194363e54e9c3c8b2ffa1774ef/bin/rust/find-invalid-utf8/main.rs