How to handle 💩.md

You've got strange characters like "�" or "ö" display in your application? Yes, handling non-English characters in application code, files and databases can be a challenge, to say the least. Whether that's German Umlauts, Cyrillic letters, Asian Glyphs or Emojis: It's always a mess in an international application. In this session you will see why that is and how handling characters evolved in computing. You will also see how handling characters in applications and databases can be done less painfully. And don't worry when EBCDIC, BOM or ISO-8859-7 are Greek to you and your Unicode is a bit rusty: we'll have a look at them too!

"painfull" should be "painfully." Otherwise, nice job. 😄

'non-english' -> 'non-English'.

'persistent storage' -> could be jargon and put people off? Could simplify and say 'files and databases'.

'painfull' -> 'painfully' (the former is an adjective, the latter an adverb), or 'can be less painful' ('painfull' is also archaic, and 'painful' preferred).

Great! Just capitalize English. And you might want to work on the title :).

Add a bit about the target audience, especially the background or lack thereof that someone would need to get the most out of your talk :)

Thanks for the feedback!

@dfeldman: I originally wanted to have a unicorn-emoji in the title, but there is none :( And it's going to be challenging as f.e. symposium doesn't accept emojis currently ;)

@edunham Thanks for the good hint.