Useful links

• On the Twitters: @BorkedUnicode.

• Almost pointlessly, a Flickr group to which you can upload screenshots.

• Can’t figure out what a character is? Copy and paste it, or a string of characters, into Richard Ishida’s String Analyzer, which will return a list of every character and its Unicode name.

• The definitive book on Unicode for informed amateurs is Jukka K. Korpela’s Unicode Explained. You really can sit there and read all 600-odd pages (I did); the book explains Unicode as simply as it ever could be explained. Or you can just search the Google Books version for help with tricky cases.

• Looking for a searchable online database of Unicode characters? There are several, but Fileformat.info is the one I use.

• Joel Spolsky’s classic article “The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets” isn’t so complicated that only hackers can understand it. Hacks will find it informative, too.