How to find information about characters

Dealing with languages, characters, accents, squiggles, dots, dashes and all other type of wordy thingymebobs in software can be a real pain. ASCII, UTF, UNICODE, it's all a real mess (IMO.) But rest assured, this site will come to your rescue: fileformat.info Everything and anything on characters for the digital world are covered here, with a very handy search capability.