Handling Unicode
summary
Shows what actually exists and what still breaks: Erlang/OTP adds Unicode across three releases, provides a unicode module with functions like characters_to_binary and defaults to UTF-8 for binaries, the io system accepts code point lists while the file module stays byte‑oriented, io servers carry an encoding option (inspectible via io:getopts), io_lib_format gains a ~t modifier for Unicode and shell heuristics can be tuned, filename and source‑encoding rules and missing grapheme/language case handling are demonstrated with practical pitfalls and workarounds.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:20What is Unicode
- 6:40Encoding
- 8:25Character Sets
- 14:15Unicode tada
- 15:20Encodings and character sets
- 16:20Binary encoding
- 22:30IO Module
- 24:15T modifier
- 29:10Barca
- 30:47Shell
- 33:13File Naming
- 38:30Source files
- 39:47Truncation
- 42:23No notion of language
- 46:28Summary
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