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HTML 4.01 - Encoding URIs with international characters

2007 Jul 11, 10:36How to encode URIs that contain international characters as specified by the HTML spec.PermalinkCommentshtml uri encoding iri unicode utf8

Office Remodel

2007 Jun 11, 4:20Venkat NameplateMy manager has come back this week from a 10 week vacation and paternity leave. In response and similar to other office hacks some dedicated coworkers and I decided to do something to my manager's office.

Venkat's New Office SpecWhile gone we knew my manager, Venkat, was getting into meditation. My coworker Vishu had the excellent idea of easing Venkat back into work by making his office better suited for meditation. To start with, we updated his nameplate with an Om.

Venkat's New and Improved OfficeNext we emptied his office of anything that could distract him from meditation and replaced it with a yoga mat. Of course I left a copy of the specification for the remodel in his office.PermalinkCommentsmicrosoft personal office humor nontechnical

Sorting It All Out : Putting the 'U' in Unicode (and the 'G' in Galacticode)

2007 Jun 11, 2:46Humorous and interesting exchange on the Unicode mailing list concerning the velocity of Unicode character additions and the ability to accomidate alien (as in e.t.) writing systems.PermalinkCommentsblog humor unicode language microsoft article alien et

Reverse Latin Script

2007 May 11, 3:48Type in some latin script and you'll get back a string of Unicode characters that looks like its rotated 180 degrees. More info on exciting Unicode codepoints.PermalinkCommentsunicode javascript tool tools web language

History of UTF-8

2007 Mar 30, 1:27The origins of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding.PermalinkCommentshistory encoding unicode ken-thompson utf8

Digit Shapes

2007 Mar 29, 5:51Windows will use the localized digit shapes instead of the European 0, 1, ... 9 if preceded by the Unicode codepoint U+206E.PermalinkCommentsmicrosoft msdn windows unicode digit U+206E U+206F

decodeunicode.org . Last Entries

2007 Mar 29, 5:40A Wiki about Unicode codepoints. Add notes concerning your favorite character.PermalinkCommentsunicode wiki social

Sorting It All Out : ASCII? no questions; I tell UNICODE lies

2007 Mar 13, 3:45Michael Kaplan answers my question about MultiByteToWideChar's flexible interpretation of US-ASCII.PermalinkCommentsencoding michael-kaplan us-ascii ascii unicode windows

ishida >> utilities: Unicode character pickers

2007 Feb 14, 3:12Another of Richard's tools that allows you to compose strings by visually picking characters from particular alphabets.PermalinkCommentsunicode tools picker encoding javascript language tool codepage i18n

UniView 5.0 (en) (© Richard Ishida)

2007 Feb 14, 3:10Richard Ishida's tool to display blocks of Unicode characters.PermalinkCommentsunicode tools i18n tool utf8 uniview encoding richard-ishida

ishida >> utilities: Unicode code converter

2007 Feb 14, 3:09Richard Ishida's website that converts between encodings of UTF-8, UTF-16, and HTML NCRs.PermalinkCommentsunicode conversion html encoding javascript software tool utf8 richard-ishida

Richard Ishida

2007 Feb 13, 12:03The home of Richard Ishida who works on internationalization at the W3C. Links to his blog, photos, writings, etc.PermalinkCommentsi18n w3c richard-ishida unicode encoding html blog photos

Index of /Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS

2006 Nov 27, 2:41Unicode's own list of mappings from Unicode to and from various vendor specific implementations of codepages.PermalinkCommentscode development programming unicode codepage reference

IDNSearch - Search and Discover IDN

2006 Oct 31, 10:57PermalinkCommentsidn example dns language unicode web2.0 social internet

Sorting It All Out : Extending the MS Transliteration Utility

2006 Aug 21, 11:34PermalinkCommentsunicode script language free tool microsoft transliteration blog michael-kaplan extensions

Microsoft Transliteration Utility v1.0 (TU)

2006 Aug 21, 11:34PermalinkCommentsunicode script language free tool microsoft transliteration

Unicode 5.0.0

2006 Jul 19, 5:56Unicode 5 has been released.PermalinkCommentslanguage encoding unicode reference

Tip #246 - Working with Unicode (the same, rewritten for legibility) : vim online

2006 Jun 21, 12:39PermalinkCommentsunicode vim vim7 encoding

FAQ - UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 & BOM

2006 Jun 21, 12:22Unicode Byte Order Mark FAQPermalinkCommentsunicode encoding bom language

UTR# 39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

2006 Jun 9, 5:15Unicode Consortium report on security considerations with textPermalinkCommentsunicode security reference encoding language
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