er and a character was 8 bits and as long as you never moved a string from one computer to another, or spoke more than one language, it would sort of always work. But of course, as soon as the Internet happened, it became quite commonplace to move strings from one computer to another, and the whole mess came tumbling down. Luckily, Unicode had been invented.</p>

<p><strong><font size="4">Unicode</font></strong></p>

<p>Unicode was a brave effort to create a single character set that included every reas