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Andy Baio : A funny thing happens when you copy/paste this character... - [via]
deusx : Untitled-1 - "A funny thing happens when you copy and paste this character into a text editor: þ "
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deusx : ☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃
Rod Begbie : http://☃.net/ - The Unicode Snowman I mentioned yesterday gets even better -- Thanks to Punycode, you can access it at http://☃.net/! [via] #
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1 month ago
Andy Baio : Unicode Snowman for You - ☃
Rod Begbie : Unicode Snowman for You - Unicode has a codepoint for *snowman*‽ ☃ [via] #
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10 month ago
wearehugh : ishida >> blog » Be flexible when referencing Unicode! - "Take for example, the Bengali character U+09CE BENGALI LETTER KHANDA TA." I'm relieved to learn there are smart people working on these issues.
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10 month ago
wearehugh : On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org - "Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."
deusx : On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org - "Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."
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16 month ago
nelson : Gentium font - Professionally designed free font with coverage of extended Latin, Greek.
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18 month ago
wearehugh : HTML Entity Character Lookup › Left Logic
Cameron Moll : HTML entity Dashboard widget - HTML entity Dashboard widget. (thanks, Sam)
Simon Willison : HTML Entity Character Lookup - HTML Entity Character Lookup. Look up HTML entities by characters that are a similar shape.
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18 month ago
wearehugh : Unicode against Smileys - nomeata’s mind shares
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20 month ago
wearehugh : Friday, April 13th: International Unicode Screen Name Day - i am very proud that this post made it through feedparser and into planet intertwingly without getting munged
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43folders : Unicode UTF-8 Encoding - HTML Resource - = Apple Logo. Nice to know. Go, Unicode!
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wearehugh : digg - Complete set of ▀█▀ █▬█ █ ▄▄█▀▀ Block Elements
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26 month ago
wearehugh : Complete set of ▀█▀ █▬█ █ ▄▄█▀▀ Block Elements (reddit.com) - old-skool new-skool unicode tagging
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26 month ago
wearehugh : digg - Generate Block Sentences with 1 or 3 lines per letter
Rod Begbie : digg - Generate Block Sentences with 1 or 3 lines per letter - The yoof of today discover ASCII art. Someone's gonna show them figlet, and they're minds will be _blown_. [via] #
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Rod Begbie : DejaVuWiki - Bitstream's open-sourced Vera fonts, tweaked to include masses of Unicodery. Vera Sans Mono has been my text-editor font of choice for a while. [via] #
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Turning MySQL data in latin1 to utf8 utf-8 - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
Paul Hammond : Turning MySQL data in latin1 to utf8 utf-8 - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog - LESSON LEARNED: KEEP EVERYTHING IN UTF-8, ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE, FROM DAY ONE
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33 month ago
joshua : Character Set List - Guide to a technical and psychological struggle
Milo Vermeulen : Unicode in Japan - Guide to a technical and psychological struggle [via]
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33 month ago
Simon Willison : Universal Encoding Detector - Character encoding auto-detection in Python, ported from Mozilla.
kellan : Universal Encoding Detector: character encoding auto-detection in Python - Its been on my todo list to port the Mozilla chardet code to a Unix lib/binary, but now I've an excuse to get lazy. Yay Mark! #
Jeremy Zawodny : Universal Encoding Detector - Universal Encoding Detector: Character encoding auto-detection in Python. As smart as your browser. Open source.
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38 month ago
kayodeok : HTML Character Entities Cheat Sheet - The HTML Character Entities cheat sheet is designed to act as a reference sheet, listing the various character codes in HTML
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38 month ago
deusx : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - "There seem to be developers who think that well-formedness is awfully hardif not impossibleto get right when producing XML programmatically and developers who can get it right and wonder why the others are so incompetent."
kayodeok : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - "There’s just no nice way to say this: Anyone who can’t make a syndication feed that's well-formed XML is an incompetent fool. - Maybe this is unkind and elitist of me, but I think that anyone who either can't or won't implement these measur
Simon Willison : HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML - Excellent advice, particularly around character encoding.
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39 month ago
kayodeok : XHTML Character Entity Reference - This page contains the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as outlined in section 24 of the official HTML 4 specifications, published by the W3C.
Eric Meyer : XHTML Character Entity Reference - Useful, yes, but very beautifully presented as well. [via Molly] [via]
Ethan Marcotte : XHTML Character Entity Reference - Hot. Via...well, everybody. I suck.
Philippe Janvier : XHTML Character Entity Reference - "This page contains the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0". [via] #
Nelson Minar : XHTML characters - What a dumb list of random things (via Hot Links)
Richard Rutter : XHTML Character Entity Reference - . [via sidesh0w.com]
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