Ever wondered why there are so many character encodings? What's the difference between them? Why do we even have character encodings anyway?

In this talk, we'll go on a history lesson to learn about why we have character encodings and how we ended up with so many as time went on. We'll dig into the technicalities of how and why they work. We'll discover how Unicode changed the game, and we'll learn about the special considerations we need to make as PHP developers when working with non-ASCII characters.