PickVidsCharacters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
Why it was recommended
a wonderful, terse, very informative video describing how utf-8 encoding works and why
Strong recommendationwcarss · Original
What it covers
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. It is for someone meeting the subject for the first time.
Video details
- Channel
- Computerphile
- Length
- 9 min 37 sec
- Year
- 2013