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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “unicode”

• Transliteration goes global

  
  WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSS — Authority: 154
  Transliteration goes global Most of us use a keyboard to enter text; it’s one of the most basic activities we perform on a computer. However even this simple activity can be cumbersome in many parts of the world. If you’ve ever tried to type in a non-Roman script using a Roman keyboard, you know that [...]
  1 day ago

• Make the Pragmas Stop!

  
  Just a Theory — Authority: 103
  Ive been following the development of a few things in the Perl community lately, and it’s leaving me very frustrated. For years now, Ive written modules that start with the same incantation: package My::Module;use strict;our $VERSION = 0.01; Pretty simple: declare the module name and version, and turn on ...
  3 days ago

• SEVEN SYMBOLS A SWAPPIN

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 725
  A Unicode Xmas Tree For You: Decorate, share, and send your very own unicode Christmas tree [via mefi projects ]
  3 days ago

• Ruby: Weird JSON.encode Problem

  
  JJinuxLand — Authority: 121
  Check this out: >> ActiveSupport::JSON.decode("[1]") => [1] >> ActiveSupport::JSON.decode("[1]") => "[1]" Weird, right? Im calling the same thing twice and getting a different answer each time. The second answer is clearly wrong. I should get an Array, not a String. After much debugging, it ...
  1 week ago

• Reading Chinese/Japanese on the Kindle, Part IV

  
  Simplicitas ???? — Authority: 115
  This is a post about optimizing the fonts on the Kindle for displaying both English and Chinese/Japanese content. You may want to start with prior entries in this ongoing series: part1 , part2 , part3 . Over time, as I’ve experimented with the Unicode Fonts Hack — the whole Kindle community really owes a ...
  1 week ago

• Unique Opportunity

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 557
  Everybody is GOD of himself…because you r responsible for your career movement….If it is going in wrong way…you have to guide your self towards right track. If you can’t do it, then let the world impose each and everything on your head…and that too on their wish. So come and join us to be [...]
  1 week ago

• Google Buys AppJet Inc !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 142
  Google buys another company AppJet it is an innovative online word processor. The EtherPad team includes three former Googlers and the EtherPad will be available for the existing users until March 31, 2010. But at the same time, other real time editors like Google Docs will broadcast an updated copy of the documents ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dingbat Liberation Fest II

  
  OSP — Authority: 106
  Friday December 11Location: CASCO, Office for Art, Design and Theory Utrecht (NL)☔ ✈ ❀ ☺ ❍ ✌ ☺ ✈ ❉ext week, OSP is happy to re-play Dingbat kitchen with students from the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design.“Dingbats have sneaked into most computers nowadays. They’re as much a part of the Unicode ...
  2 weeks ago

• BUG: O2 Germany confirms SMS-bug for Palm Pre webOS 1.3.1

  
  the::unwired — Authority: 133
  In a recent information, sent to its dealers, O2 Germany confirmed that the recently released Palm Pre webOS 1.3.1 ROM has a major bug which can affects SMS text messages. WebOS 1.3.1 interprets some special characters wrong which results in a change of the SMS-type where the Palm Pre switches to Unicode. However, ...
  2 weeks ago

• O2 Germany Confirms Palm Pre SMS Bug

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 165
  It seems that O2 Germany has confirmed that the Palm Pre webOS 1.3.1 ROM has a bug affecting SMS text messages. that latest version of the OS seems to interpret some special characters wrong, which results in the SMS being switched to Unicode (which has a max of 70 characters). whether users aren’t paying ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alexey Zakhlestins Blog: Ode to mb_ereg functions

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Alexey Zakhlestin has written an ode to the mb_ereg functions - a set of regular expression based functions that are more than just for unicode strings: read more
  2 weeks ago

• Reading Chinese/Japanese on the Kindle, Part III

  
  Simplicitas ???? — Authority: 115
  This is a follow up to my previous posts on reading Asian text on Amazon’s Kindle ( part1 , part2 ). With the 2.3 firmware update, the Kindle 2 and the Kindle DX now has the ability to read PDFs natively. If you convert your Asian text documents to PDF, you’ll be able to read them on the Kindle just fine. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mastering Characters Sets in Linux (Weird Characters, part 2)

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 160
  In Part 1 Akkana Peck talked about Unicode, character sets and encoding -- how accented and special characters are transferred in email and web pages, and why you see funny characters. But can you fix it when it goes wrong? And if youre a programmer, how should you be handling all these encodings?
  2 weeks ago

• Help me test WP-Cumulus unicode support

  
  Roy Tanck's weblog — Authority: 111
  The one feature I’ve always wanted to add to WP-Cumulus is true unicode support. Flash player 9 made this impossible because it needed to have the font characters embedded into the movie, and unicode fonts are simply too big for that. But with Flash 10, Adobe has introduced new ways of handling text, and those ...
  3 weeks ago

• Uninstalling old version of UFH

  
  Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2 And Kindle DX Blog — Authority: 464
  There seems to be a small problem with the latest UHF update. The newest uninstaller doesn’t remove old versions of the hack. Since all my Kindle devices have software 2.3 now I can’t debug the issue. I’ve made old version of uninstaller available that should do the job:Kindle 2 (serial number starts with B002) ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft Translation Tool which cuts off Language Barrier

  
  Ub News — Authority: 522
  Microsoft Translation Tool which cuts off Language Barrier – Microsoft Corporation would soon launch its translation tools that cut off all language barriers. It would make computers accessible for those individuals who don’t know English. These translation tools will be designed mainly for six languages i.e. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unicode Fonts Hack for Kindle 2.3

  
  Amazon Kindle, Kindle 2 And Kindle DX Blog — Authority: 464
  This updated version of Kindle Unicode Fonts Hack works on all versions of Kindle software including the most recent 2.3 and installs on Kindle 2 US, Kindle 2 International and Kindle DX.I’ve added more font combinations:GNU FreeFont – this hack uses GNU Free Fonts that come with Linux and are free to ...
  3 weeks ago

• How do you type € again?

  
  Global by Design — Authority: 118
  It’s not easy having an American English keyboard when you frequently need to input characters like è or ä or ç. Or ¥. Or €. Maybe it’s because I switch between Mac and Windows so frequently. Or maybe I’m just too lazy to remember the keyboard shortcuts. Fortunately, I just discovered: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Looking for Outlook setting.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 613
  Is there an Outlook setting to tell it to substitute a glyph from an alternate font if the current display font doesnt have a glyph for a particular character? For example, I send a message with left- and right-ceiling brackets (U+2308 and U+2309) to a colleague who uses Outlook. No font is specified in the message. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Understanding Character Sets or: Why do I See Funny Characters in Firefox?

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 160
  What the heck does ?€œ mean? Why do we see these, and what be done about them? Akkana Peck explores the mysteries of character sets and encodings.
  4 weeks ago

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