Re: [tlug] The 11th Commandment

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 09/04/2008, Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com> wrote:

> Josh Glover wrote:
>
> > "XI: Thou shalt grok Unicode!"
>
>  # wget -S http://amazon.jp/
>
>  Content-Type: text/html; charset=Shift_JIS
>
>  Even if thou shalt choose not to use it ;)

There have been threads about Unicode at Amazon; search the archives.

But part of grokking Unicode is knowing to store your data in UTF-8
internally, and encode to some other crazy charset as late as possible
in the output process. Which we do. :)

-- 
Cheers,
Josh