You’ve heard that Elixir has great Unicode support. But how? I’ve written two posts on the Big Nerd Ranch blog explaining what Unicode is, how UTF-8 encoding works, and how Elixir’s string implementation helps it do things correctly that many languages do wrong.

• Elixir and Unicode, Part 1: Unicode and UTF-8 Explained
• Elixir and Unicode, Part 2: Working with Unicode Strings