very cool - html5 unicode character recognition. useful for finding the codepoint of that arrow you really needed
Aug 10th: Björn Höhrmann's excellent compact UTF-8 decoder is one of those C masterpieces that makes you realize quite how powerful the language can be.
very cool - html5 unicode character recognition. useful for finding the codepoint of that arrow you really needed
i want to be the first google result for a single character [via asc]
after a weekend of dorking around with bidirectional text on the web, i've put together a short guide to understanding bidirectional text in unicode. comments welcome
did i blog the unicode poster stuff already? i hope so
fileformat.info has the best unicode codepoint reference docs i've seen [via ph]
the medieval unicode font initiative are doing interesting things with the unicode private use area
tom insam does good presentation slides. i will bear these in my if i get round to doing slides for etcon.
today i've mostly been reading about surrogates (for the noted2 unicode library) and have finally tracked them down in the unicode manual. it seems like a poorly designed part of unicode, which should have just been replaced by utf32.
unicameral is definately my favourite word of the week. found a nice definition after i worked it into a conversation and had to explain myself.
This is the personal website of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles.
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