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Swift and Unicode API Design with Rob Napier

Software Unscripted

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UTF-8 Is So Ingenious That It Should Get a Medal

UTF-8 is so ingenious that it should get a medal. It's very clever, especially how it works with backwards compatibility with ASCII. The most important problem you're going to run into is you cannot index by integers. There is no O of one way to ask what is the fifth character.

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