Dec 24, 2025 · 4 min read · Hi everyone! this is Jimmy , and this is a short article in my series “Breaking Things with Go.” In this series, I document my journey through Jon Bodner’s Second Edition: Learning Go – An Idiomatic Approach to Real-World Go Programming and explore h...
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Nov 15, 2025 · 2 min read · If you’ve ever copied a URL parameter or data from an API and seen weird sequences like %E2%9C%93 or \u00E9, you know the pain of dealing with percent-encoded or UTF-8–encoded text. That’s where a UTF-8 Decoder comes to the rescue — it flips that enc...
Join discussionNov 15, 2025 · 2 min read · When working with web apps, APIs, or international content, one tiny thing can cause massive headaches: character encoding. Ever seen weird symbols like é or — popping up instead of normal characters?Yep… that’s an encoding issue — and UTF-8 is th...
Join discussionNov 7, 2025 · 7 min read · When you first start working with text in Go, everything seems simple until you meet emojis, accented characters, and UTF-8 encoding. Then suddenly, len("🙂") doesn't equal 1 anymore. To truly understand how Go handles text, we need to dive into stri...
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Apr 13, 2025 · 5 min read · In the shadowy corners of cybersecurity, it’s not always the high-tech exploits or zero-day flaws that bring systems to their knees. Sometimes, it’s the humble characters we type every day—twisted into weapons by clever hackers. ASCII and Unicode, th...
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Apr 10, 2025 · 3 min read · Ever wondered how languages like Telugu, emojis, or even simple letters like 'A' are stored in Go?It all comes down to Unicode and UTF-8 — and Go makes working with them surprisingly clean. Let’s peel back the layers of abstraction and see what reall...
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Oct 30, 2024 · 4 min read · I've been exploring Go's UTF-8 support lately, and was curious about how well it handles non-Latin scripts in code. Go and UTF-8 Go source files are UTF-8 encoded by default. This means you can, in theory, use Unicode characters in your variable name...
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Jun 11, 2024 · 2 min read · UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format 8-bit) is a character encoding capable of encoding all possible characters defined by Unicode. In the context of HTML, UTF-8 is the recommended character encoding for web pages. Here are some key points regarding ...
Join discussionApr 17, 2024 · 1 min read · So, last day I got an encoding error. The data is what I though was in Shift-JIS but it could not be converted to UTF-8 because in Shift-JIS ‡ U+0087 does not exists. It's is multiple used as title like so: https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/unicode/U+008...
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