> Thats because Unicode is STILL a pain to use. I think that depends heavily...

jpdoctor · on July 10, 2012

Pointers to a comparison across languages would be welcomed. TIA.

LoonyPandora · on July 10, 2012

http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html

Specifically the talk titled "Unicode Support Shootout: The Good, The Bad, & the (mostly) Ugly"

It's a year old now, but it's still relevant. It gives a very detailed look at unicode support across JavaScript, PHP, Go, Ruby, Python, Java, and Perl.

arnsholt · on July 10, 2012

Tom Christiansen's talk Unicode: The good, the bad, & the (mostly) ugly covers a lot of Unicode wrinkles and how Javascript, PHP, Go, Python, Ruby, Java, and Perl handles them.

Slides for that talk and two other Perl-related Unicode talks are at http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/index.html