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title: "How Unicode Works: What Every Developer Needs to Know About Strings and 🦄"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-unicode-works-what-every-developer-needs-to-know-about-strings-and--dvlfno7ad
source_url: https://deliciousbrains.com/how-unicode-works/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2023-01-12T23:12:27.268Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["javascript", "wordpress", "php", "mysql"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 13
comments: 1
language: en
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# How Unicode Works: What Every Developer Needs to Know About Strings and 🦄

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 12 min read · 13 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Two years ago we published the first version of this blog post about Unicode. We figured it is about time to revisit our old friend Unicode and see why it's important in today’s emoji filled world. Back in the day when Unix was getting invented, characters were represented with 8 bits (1 byte) of memory.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://deliciousbrains.com/how-unicode-works/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@randy** · 1 upvotes

> The moment I saw this, all I could think of was [Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4).

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