Inspirated by a post of Jeff Atwood on Codinghorror I, some minutes ago, designed and ordered this shirt:

I thougth it was funny ’cause even if you don’t do programming with unicode you surly encounter unicode - e.g. when setting the doctype of a website.

At least if you haven’t had “a chance” to deal with this subject the way I would have liked to yet you’d read Unicode and You. I’m very much assured that it will help you to understand the basics.

Listen what Joel Spolsky from joelonsoftware.com in 2003 had to say:

So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.