[Marco] goes in detail about different problems found when dealing with Unicode strings. When C was being developed, ASCII itself had just been finalized in the form we know today, so it treats ...

Programmers standardized on the ASCII character set, but there was no room for all of the characters used in other languages. To enable real-time worldwide communication, we needed something better.

‘B’ is the second and so on, all the way up to ‘Z’, which is the 26th letter. In ASCII, each character has its own assigned number. For example: ...