Code points and characters and glyphs, oh my!
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) – You can’t process strings without knowing the character set.
What the heck is: A string – And sometimes you need to know the language the text was written in, too.
And Jonathon Decalour has been wrestling with some of this stuff lately too. Read these three recent posts, and especially the comments. Sometimes even knowing the character set AND the language isn’t good enough.
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Yeah I don\’t know anything about character sets, and it\’s a damn shame. It sucks going through life thinking that every language on the planet just uses infinite series of ????? marks to represent their language.
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I had to learn something about the whole subject when I wanted to have Chinese characters on this site. Now it\’s coming in handy at work, we\’re starting to think about i18n.
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I finally uploaded most of my pictures (I cannot find the others) from Japan onto Ofoto: http://www.ofoto.com/I.jsp?c=ilev1gt.i2fyulp&x=1&y=-246kjk
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Ha! Great! Some of your pictures look so familiar!