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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/09
Like me, [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp is a nerd.
Unlike me, Kris bumped into character encoding issues for just about all his digital life. That started about the same time as mine, but again unlike me: he was way more involved in the technical aspects of it.
First a series of Tweets:
Posted in ASCII, C++, Development, Encoding, EPS/PostScript, Font, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Power User, Software Development, Times New Roman | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/01
Get the new [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook at a discount while it is hot:
Use Coupon Code: DTSPATT10 at checkout to get a $10 discount.
This promotional offer is valid through June 14.
Posted in Delphi, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Multi-Threading / Concurrency, Software Development, UTF-8, Windows-1252 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/09
Nowadays, some 35 years after the first Unicode ideas got drafted and 30+ years after the Unicode Consortium saw the light, UTF-8 is served my more than 95% of the web as shown in yesterday’s post UTF-8 web adoption is huge, closing 100%, but only soured up since around 2006..
I mentioned this:
It means that nowadays there is a very small chance you will see mangled characters (what Japanese call mojibake) when you’re surfing the web.
Below are some issues that happened not too long ago and still happen. I have reported them to all parties involved through web-care, but no response whatsoever, and this is bad: Unicode support beyond basic ASCII for the below systems are still broken even for relatively simple non-ASCII characters based in diacritics decorating a standard ASCII character.
Yes, I know the realm of encoding and code pages is a mess, especially when handling data in multiple layers of an application stack. That’s why I wrote this post in the first place, and have a whole encoding category of blog posts plus a Mojibake subset.
Posted in Communications Development, CP850, Dark Pattern, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Software Development, Unicode, User Experience (ux), UTF-16, UTF-8, Windows-1252 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/07
A well worth long rad:
We all recognize emoji. They’ve become the global pop stars of digital communication. But what are they, technically speaking? And what might we learn by taking a closer look at these images, characters, pictographs… whatever they are 🤔 (Thinking Face). We will dig deep to learn about how these thingamajigs work. Please note: Depending on your browser, you may not be able to see all emoji featured in this article (especially the Tifinagh characters). Also, different platforms vary in how they display emoji as well. That’s why the article always provides textual alternatives. Don’t let it discourage you from reading though! Now, let’s start with a seemingly simple question. What are emoji?
[WayBack] You, Me And The Emoji: Character Sets, Encoding And Emoji – Smashing Magazine
Via: [WayBack] Everything you ever wanted to know about characters, encodings, glyphs… and, oh yeah, emoji: bit.ly/2fNKeW3Long, rewarding read. – Ilya Grigorik – Google+
Here is just the ToC:
TABLE OF CONTENTS LINK
–jeroen
Posted in ASCII, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Shift JIS, Unicode, UTF-16, UTF-8, UTF16, UTF8, Windows-1252 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/04
A while ago (in fact more than a year), I posted Encoding is hard… go G+ with the below picture.
[Wayback] ftfy (“fixes text for you”, a parody on “fixed that for you”) [Wayback] fixes it, but:
How did the single quote become “’“?
Actually, because of a a common “beautification” of many Office suites (Microsoft and Open alike), the single quote was a special one: a Unicode Character ‘RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK’ (U+2019) which in UTF-8 is encoded as 0xE2 0x80 0x99.
Posted in Development, Encoding, ftfy, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF8, Windows-1252 | Leave a Comment »
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