Article about Unicode and Character Encodings by Joel Spolsky

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
(No Excuses!)
by Joel Spolsky

I read this this article long back, and so thought of sharing with more people.
It gives you very clear picture about character sets, Unicode, character encoding, UTF-8 etc.
Every programmer, fresher, software developer, senior software developer, Team leads should know about this.
Really amazing article, and he simplified lot of things, Enjoy reading this article....

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets