Problem Statement

As the world gets smaller each day, internationalization becomes more and more important.   For handling multiple languages, Unicode is your best friend. It is a very capable tool, but also quite complex compared to older single- and double-byte character encodings. How well prepared is your programming language for Unicode?

Discuss and demonstrate its unicode awareness and capabilities.

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This task is a bit unusual in that it encourages general discussion rather than clever coding.

Let's start with the solution:

> (set encoded (binary ("åäö ð" utf8)))
#B(195 165 195 164 195 182 32 195 176)


> (io:format "~tp~n" (list encoded))
<<"åäö ð"/utf8>>


> (unicode:characters_to_list encoded 'utf8)
"åäö ð"