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5 hours ago
The question I got the other day was a "slightly less suitable for families" version of this blog's title. It came out of It used to be right, dammit! , and reader Jon was kind of confused as to why this flag and so …
Tagged: unicode standards, encoding codepages, locales cultures, int l programming
5 hours ago
Previous blogs in this series of blogs on this Blog: Part 0: The intro, sans content Part 1: Getting the obvious out of the way Part 2: A&P of a 'linguistic character' Part 3: It starts with cursor movement …
Tagged: unicode standards, collation casing, locales cultures, int l programming, linguistic, unicode lame list, fonts typography
5 hours ago
Off-topic, irreverent, but with a kernel of truth in it for people who care about such things.... I don't think that a blog has the force of law or anything, but hopefully when I die those charged with deciding how to …
Tagged: potpourri
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Tamil language support in Windows? You can't SHRII-k yet, but it's getting better5 hours ago So back in Unicode 4.1, Unicode added ஶ (U+0bb6, aka TAMIL LETTER SHA). Then there was a {ahem} brief delay, after which Vista shipped. For the record, the Latha font was updated prior to ship. . Two points for … Tagged: unicode standards, collation casing, locales cultures, int l programming, keyboards, linguistic, unicode lame list, fonts typography |
Oct 11, 2008
Conventional wisdom tells us that size matters, and unconventional (or more accurately, inappropriate?) wisdom tends to concur. Most of the time it refers to the idea that bigger is better. But there are some times …
Tagged: unicode standards, encoding codepages, potpourri, mslu