An introduction to character encoding and emoji

As a developer, understanding character encoding adds a lot of clarity to your work, especially when you’re dealing with text that contains characters beyond A-Z. If you’ve ever migrated a database from one site to another and ended up with jumbled characters in your content, this talk is for you. I’ll also explain why emoji in WordPress is the public relations face of something much more important.

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John Blackbourn

I'm one of the team of WordPress core developers. I was the release lead for WordPress 4.1 and 4.9.1. I work as the Director of WordPress Security at Human Made and I'm the WordPress core security team lead. Previously I've worked at Code For The People and WordPress.com VIP.

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