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Compact UTF-8 Decoder

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:19:05 +0000

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.

29th February, 11:26 am

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:26:11 +0000

very cool - html5 unicode character recognition. useful for finding the codepoint of that arrow you really needed

26th January, 2:56 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:56:53 +0000

i want to be the first google result for a single character [via asc]

1st March, 11:40 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:40:29 +0000

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

14th February, 6:50 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:50:41 +0000

did i blog the unicode poster stuff already? i hope so

13th August, 4:37 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:37:28 +0000

fileformat.info has the best unicode codepoint reference docs i've seen [via ph]

3rd January, 4:09 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:09:02 +0000

the medieval unicode font initiative are doing interesting things with the unicode private use area

25th February, 4:43 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:43:14 +0000

tom insam does good presentation slides. i will bear these in my if i get round to doing slides for etcon.

4th October, 11:00 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:00:48 +0000

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 it seems like a poorly designed part of unicode, which should have just been replaced by utf32.

12th July, 8:16 pm

nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:16:09 +0000

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.